Connecting to "PCI command write" interrupt on 4xx platforms

Matthias Fuchs matthias.fuchs at esd-electronics.com
Tue Nov 4 00:40:39 EST 2008


On Monday 03 November 2008 12:54, Stefan Roese wrote:
> On Monday 03 November 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 10:10 +0100, Matthias Fuchs wrote:
> > > Adding this interrupt to the PCI node would make (logical) sense. But
> > > on PCI adapter (add-in cards) designs we typically disable the PCI node
> > > of the DT to disable PCI PnP. This should not prevent us from adding the
> > > interrupt to the node but it looks a little bit weird to take an
> > > interrupt from a disabled node, right?
> >
> > You can make a pci-endpoint node that isn't detected as a host bridge.
> > In fact, I think we have some way to even tell in the DT not to activate
> > host bridge function on 44x nowadays no ? I dont remember for sure but
> > it's easy enough to add.
> 
> Yes, it's there. But "only" for PCIe and not for PCI(-X). This patch added it 
> for PCIe:
> 
>     [POWERPC] 4xx: Add endpoint support to 4xx PCIe driver
>     
> It should be easy to add this for PCI and PCI-X as well.
Yes, I already though about that. Currently I set the status attribute of the pci node
to "disabled" when running as endpoint.

But adding endpoint support similiar as you did for PCIe makes sense to me.

Matthias



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