PCI I/O space -- reg or ranges?
Segher Boessenkool
segher at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Sep 7 07:01:17 EST 2007
>>> Sure, it can be encoded like that. But does it make sense?
>>> You cannot use legacy I/O space as normal memory space.
>>
>> Why does it not make sense? I'm not sure what you mean by using it as
>> "normal memory space", but if the PCI bridge does a straightforward
>> linear mapping of I/O into memory space (like most non-x86 bridges
>> do),
>> it seems to make sense to me to reuse the existing ranges mechanism
>> rather than require each driver to have extra glue code.
> Well, pci_process_bridge_OF_ranges() only looks at the ranges property
> to
> ioremap() I/O space.
That's because it is the function that process the "ranges"
property, like its name shows ;-)
Segher
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