Re: [v2 3/6] of: address: add support to parse PCI outbound-ranges

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On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 08:49:23AM +0000, Lad, Prabhakar wrote:
> Hi Rob,
> 
> Thank you for the review.
> 
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 8:37 PM Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 2:48 AM Lad Prabhakar
> > <prabhakar.csengg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: "Lad, Prabhakar" <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > this patch adds support to parse PCI outbound-ranges, the
> > > outbound-regions are similar to pci ranges except it doesn't
> > > have pci address, below is the format for bar-ranges:
> > >
> > > outbound-ranges = <flags upper32_cpuaddr lower32_cpuaddr
> > >                    upper32_size lower32_size>;
> >
> > You can't just make up a new ranges property. Especially one that
> > doesn't follow how 'ranges' works. We already have 'dma-ranges' to
> > translate device to memory addresses.
> >
> > Explain the problem or feature you need, not the solution you came up
> > with. Why do you need this and other endpoint bindings haven't?
> >
> rcar SoC's supports multiple outbound region for mapping the PCI address
> locally to the system. This lead to discussion where there exist controllers
> which support regions for high/low priority transfer and similarly regions
> for large/small memory allocations, as a result a new ranges property was
> added, where we can specify the flags which would indicate how the outbound
> region can be used during requests.

What are the flags?

Rob



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