PCI on 834x
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Feb 26 07:49:42 EST 2010
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 07:25 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
> I may have been too hasty pronouncing this fixed. Indeed, the
> SATA interface now works, but my video card (Fujitsu Coral-P)
> does not work when it's mapped at the bottom of the PCI space :-(
>
> With the bridge mapped, the video ends up at a non-zero address
> (0xC8000000..0xCFFFFFFF). If it gets mapped to 0xC0000000, it
> fails to respond to MMIO accesses.
>
> Any ideas how I might get around this? Is there a way to force
> the PCI allocator to start somewhere other than [relative] zero?
I'm not familiar with the way the FSL bridge works, but it would
be possible to invert MMIO and DMA on your PCI bus. IE. Have MMIO go
from 0....2G and DMA from 2G..4G for example. Provided the FSL bridge
can offset the DMA back down to 0 (memory). Can it ?
Cheers,
Ben.
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