pci and pcie device-tree binding - range No cells

[Michal Simek]

On 12/10/2012 05:02 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> On 12/10/2012 09:37 AM, Michal Simek wrote:
>> On 12/10/2012 04:21 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
>>> On 12/10/2012 09:05 AM, Michal Simek wrote:
>>>> On 12/10/2012 03:26 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
>>>>> On 12/10/2012 06:20 AM, Michal Simek wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Grant and others,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a question regarding number of cells in ranges property
>>>>>> for pci and pcie nodes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Linux pci/pcie powerpc DTSes contain 7 cells (xpedite5370.dts,
>>>>>> sequoia.dts, etc)
>>>>>> but also 6 cells format too (mpc832x_mds.dts)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Here is shown 6 cells ranges format and describe
>>>>>> http://devicetree.org/Device_Tree_Usage#PCI_Host_Bridge
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And also in documentation in the linux
>>>>>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/83xx-512x-pci.txt
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Both format uses:
>>>>>> #size-cells = <2>;
>>>>>> #address-cells = <3>;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What is valid format?
>>>>>
>>>>> Both. 7 cells are valid when the host (parent) bus is 64-bit and 6
>>>>> cells
>>>>> are valid when the host bus is 32-bit. The ranges property is <<child
>>>>> address> <parent address> <size>>. The parent address #address-cells is
>>>>> taken from the parent node.
>>>>
>>>> Ok. Got it.
>>>>
>>>> Here is what we use on zynq and microblaze - both 32bit which should be
>>>> fine.
>>>>
>>>>       ps7_axi_interconnect_0: axi at 0 {
>>>>           #address-cells = <1>;
>>>>           #size-cells = <1>;
>>>>           axi_pcie_0: axi-pcie at 50000000 {
>>>>               #address-cells = <3>;
>>>>               #size-cells = <2>;
>>>>               compatible = "xlnx,axi-pcie-1.05.a";
>>>>               ranges = < 0x02000000 0 0x60000000 0x60000000 0
>>>> 0x10000000 >;
>>>>               ...
>>>>           }
>>>>       }
>>>>
>>>> What I am wondering is pci_process_bridge_OF_ranges() at
>>>> arch/powerpc/kernel/pci-common.c
>>>> where there are used some hardcoded values which should be probably
>>>> loaded from device-tree.
>>>>
>>>> For example:
>>>> 683         int np = pna + 5;
>>>> ...
>>>> 702                 pci_addr = of_read_number(ranges + 1, 2);
>>>> 703                 cpu_addr = of_translate_address(dev, ranges + 3);
>>>> 704                 size = of_read_number(ranges + pna + 3, 2);
>>>
>>> These would always be correct whether you have 6 or 7 cells. pna is the
>>> parent bus address cells size. The pci address is fixed at 3 cells.
>>
>> Sorry for my pci ignorance (have never got hw for mb/zynq)
>> I just want to get better overview how we should we our drivers to be
>> compatible.
>>
>> Does it mean that pci is supposed be always 64 bit wide?
>> And there is no option to have just 32bit values.
>
> That's what the DT documentation says.
>
> BTW, you can use 2 cells even if you only have a 32-bit bus.

ok - no problem with that. Just want to be sure about it.

>>>> Unfortunately we have copied it to microblaze.
>>>
>>> I look at the PCI DT code in powerpc and see a whole bunch of code that
>>> seems like it should be common. The different per arch pci structs
>>> complicates that. No one has really gotten to looking at PCI DT on ARM
>>> yet except you and Thierry for Tegra. We definitely don't want to create
>>> a 3rd copy. Starting the process of moving it to something like
>>> drivers/pci/pci-of.c would be great.
>>
>> We have done pcie working on zynq and the same pcie host is working on
>> Microblaze too.
>> There are just small differences. That's why I have sent another email
>> ("Sharing PCIE driver between Microblaze and Arm zynq") to find out
>> proper location.
>
> Yes, I've followed the thread. There are lots of areas for consolidation
> with PCIe hosts both across architectures and within ARM. There are
> multiple people using DW PCIe IP although not upstream yet that I'm
> aware of.

Your suggestions are really appreciate.

Thanks,
Michal

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