BUG: no PCI/PCIe devices found in 85xx architecture

Stefani Seibold stefani at seibold.net
Wed Jun 26 15:21:32 EST 2013


Am Dienstag, den 25.06.2013, 18:46 -0500 schrieb Scott Wood:
> On 06/25/2013 01:40:14 PM, Stefani Seibold wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > there is a bug in kernel 3.9 which the new fsl_pci platform driver.  
> > The
> > pcibios_init in pci_32.c will be called before the platform driver  
> > probe
> > will be invoked.
> > 
> > The call order for a p2020 board with linux 3.9 is currently:
> > 
> > fsl_pci_init
> > pcibios_init
> > fsl_pci_probe
> > fsl_pci_probe
> > fsl_pci_probe
> > 
> > Therefore the PCI/PCIe bridge will be added after the PCI/PCIe busses
> > was scanned for devices. So no PCI/PCIe devices are available.
> > 
> > Everything works fine by reverting the fsl_pci.[ch] to the version in
> > linux 3.4, because the PCI/PCIe bridges will be added in
> > the ..._setup_arch() function, before the pcibios_init function is
> > called.
> > 
> > Any solution for this issue?
> 
> I can't reproduce this on p3041 -- pcibios_init gets called after  
> fsl_pci_probe, and its PCIe e1000 gets detected and used.
> 
> fsl_pci_probe should be called when of_platform_bus_probe is called,  
> which is in a machine_arch_initcall.  pcibios_init is a  
> subsys_initcall, which should happen later.
> 
> Which p2020 board are you using?  Could you check when it is calling  
> of_platform_bus_probe?
> 
> -Scott

Great, you are my hero. This is the solution.

In my old board support package for the kernel 3.4 there was a
machine_device_initcall(). I did not saw the tiny difference against
machine_arch_initcall() used by the other 85xx boards as i ported it to
3.9.

Thanks

- Stefani




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