Commit 3da34aa brakes MSI support on MPC8308 (possibly all MPC83xx) [REPOST]

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Wed Aug 4 05:11:03 EST 2010


Hello Kumar, hello Kim,


can you _please_ comment?  Thanks.

In message <20100729212043.4258C152397 at gemini.denx.de> I wrote:
> Dear Kumar & Kim,
> 
> any comments on this issue?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> In message <4C48B384.1020006 at emcraft.com> Ilya Yanok wrote:
> >   Hi Kumar, Kim, Josh, everybody,
> > 
> > I hope to disturb you but I haven't got any reply for my first posting...
> > 
> > I've found that MSI work correctly with older kernels on my MPC8308RDB 
> > board and don't work with newer ones. After bisecting I've found that 
> > the source of the problem is commit 3da34aa:
> > 
> > commit 3da34aae03d498ee62f75aa7467de93cce3030fd
> > Author: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>
> > Date:   Tue May 12 15:51:56 2009 -0500
> > 
> >      powerpc/fsl: Support unique MSI addresses per PCIe Root Complex
> > 
> >      Its feasible based on how the PCI address map is setup that the region
> >      of PCI address space used for MSIs differs for each PHB on the same SoC.
> > 
> >      Instead of assuming that the address mappes to CCSRBAR 1:1 we read
> >      PEXCSRBAR (BAR0) for the PHB that the given pci_dev is on.
> > 
> >      Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>
> > 
> > I can see BAR0 initialization for 85xx/86xx hardware but not for 83xx 
> > neigher in the kernel nor in U-Boot (that makes me think that all 83xx 
> > can be affected).
> > I'm not actually an PCI expert so I've just tried to write IMMR base 
> > address to the BAR0 register from the U-Boot to get the correct address 
> > but this doesn't help.
> > Please direct me how to init 83xx PCIE controller to make it compatible 
> > with this patch.
> > 
> > Kim, I think MPC8315E is affected too, could you please test it?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > Regards, Ilya.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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