[PATCH 6/7] [POWERPC] mpc8568mds.dts: fix PCI/PCIe nodes

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Oct 6 06:58:00 EST 2007


On Oct 5, 2007, at 1:05 PM, Anton Vorontsov wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 09:56:46PM +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> Anton Vorontsov wrote:
>>
>>> Commit 5bece127f0666996ca90772229e00332a34e516c tried to fix
>>> PCI/PCIe nodes, but actually it broke them even harder. ;-)
>>
>>    Of course. But shouldn't those be the subnoses of the "soc"  
>> type node?
>
> Nope. PCI's ranges = <>; isn't in the SOC address space.
>
> Valentine Barshak posted a patch titled "[RFC] [PATCH] PowerPC: Add  
> 64-bit
> phys addr support to 32-bit pci" that started using  
> of_translate_address()
> for ranges, and of_translate_address() will not work if PCI placed  
> in the
> SOC node. Not sure if that patch applied or not, though.

I'm confused, what's the actual issue with PCI that this patch  
addresses?

- k



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