Re: [PATCH v10 07/10] OF: Introduce helper function for getting PCI domain_nr

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>> OK. Sorry, I have one last question, because domain will be used to calculate the address used to
>> access PCI hardware config registers. So if DTS file doesn't report the domain, how do we know
>> we would access the right registers when we use the auto increment domain vaule ?
>> Has there a mechanism to make sure system can access the correct registers by the domain ?
> 
> I think you're referring to config access via ECAM (PCIe r3.0, sec
> 7.2.2).  In that case, I don't think the domain should be used to
> compute the memory-mapped configuration address.  Each host bridge is
> in exactly one domain, and each host bridge has an associated ECAM
> area base.  The address calculation uses the bus number, device
> number, function number, and register number to compute an offset into
> the ECAM area.
> 
> So as long as the DT tells you the ECAM information for each host
> bridge, that should be sufficient.  The domain number is then just a
> Linux convenience and is not tied to the platform as it is on ia64.

Hi Bjorn, you are right, thanks for your detailed explanation! :)

Thanks!
Yijing.

> 
> Bjorn
> 
> .
> 


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Thanks!
Yijing

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