[PATCH v10 09/18] powerpc/powernv: Extend PCI bridge resources

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Fri, 2016-06-10 at 15:28 +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> > Actually, it's likely caused by hardware defect
> > - we can't set 2GB (0x80000000 - 0xffffffff) to RC's memory window.
> > Otherwise, it *seems* the window is disabled. I tried updating the
> > window with (0x80000000 - 0xffefffff) or (0x80000000 - 0xffdffff), no
> > EEH error was seen. I already got 0x00001000 on read despite whatever
> > I wrote to 0x20 reg.
> > 
> > The hardware is broken. In order to fix this, I intend to include a
> > bitmap for every PHB device node in skiboot. Kernel uses this to apply
> > fixup accordingly. One bit is reserved on Garrison platform to avoid
> > this issue. The fix can be a patch inserted before this patch in next
> > revision
> 
> This sounds better as preserves bisectability. Thanks.

Ah yes they made those registers read-only. Look at my PHB4 code, I
implement a cache for them in SW.

Cheers,
Ben.