[Openipmi-developer] [patch 1/1] ipmi: add autosensing of ipmi device on powerpc using device-tree

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 01:00 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 08 December 2006 23:50, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > +     info->io.regsize        = resource0.end - resource0.start + 1;
> > > +     info->io.regspacing     = resource1.start - resource0.start;
> > > 
> > > Are you sure this is a reliable way to check the register spacing and
> > > register size?  Register size means "how big is a register (8, 16, 32
> > > bits)".  Register spacing means (how many bytes are there between
> > > registers.  If you had two registers that were 8 bits and 4 bytes
> > > apart, for instance, I don't believe the above calculations would work.
> > 
> > How many registers do we expect here ? Might be better to have one
> > resource represent the whole MMIO area, and have a separate property
> > that indicates the stride between 2 registers.
> 
> I think the current representation is perfect. AFAICS, there are always
> two registers, but depending on the HW implementation, they may be
> between 1 and 4 bytes wide, and can have a different spacing.
> 
> By having two separate areas in the reg property, the driver can
> easily determine both the size and the spacing. It will then do
> a single ioremap that spans both anyway.

For only 2 registers, it makes sense yes.

Ben.