[PATCH 4/5] powerpc/dts: remove msi-available-ranges property

[Scott Wood]

On 06/17/2013 12:15:36 AM, Lian Minghuan-b31939 wrote:
> On 06/15/2013 06:10 AM, Scott Wood wrote:
>> On 06/14/2013 02:15:58 AM, Minghuan Lian wrote:
>>> For MPIC v4.3 MSIIR supports 8 MSI registers and MSIIR1 supports
>>> 16 MSI registers, but uses different IBS and SRS shift. For the
>>> first register, when using MSIIR we will get the irqs 0x0 0x1 0x2
>>> ...0x1f, but when using MSIIR1, the irqs are 0x0 0x10 0x20 ... 0x1f0
>>> It is hard to describe the available irqs using property
>>> 'msi-available-ranges'. The patch removes this property.
>> 
>> Only remove it from mpic 4.3.  And since you introduced  
>> qoriq-mpic4.3.dtsi earlier in the patchset, why didn't you just  
>> avoid adding it then?
>> 
> [Minghuan] If adding it in qoriq-mpic4.3, and the 3-5 patches are not  
> accepted, mpic4.3 can also work.

mpic 4.3 cannot work with msi-available-ranges, at all.  The hardware  
just doesn't work that way.

-Scott