Re: [PATCH 2/4] PCI: iproc: Add Broadcom iProc PCIe driver

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+ Rafal

On 12/10/14 19:46, Florian Fainelli wrote:
2014-12-10 8:46 GMT-08:00 Scott Branden<sbranden@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
On 14-12-10 03:31 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

On Tuesday 09 December 2014 16:04:29 Ray Jui wrote:

Add initial version of the Broadcom iProc PCIe driver. This driver
has been tested on NSP and Cygnus and is expected to work on all iProc
family of SoCs that deploys the same PCIe host controller

The driver also supports MSI

Signed-off-by: Ray Jui<rjui@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Scott Branden<sbranden@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


The driver looks suspiciously like the one that Hauke already submitted a
while ago for bcm53xx. Please come up with a merged driver that works for
both.

Could you please be a little more specific.  What driver did "Hauke already
submitted"?  I do not see any driver in the kernel you are talking about.

https://www.marc.info/?l=linux-pci&m=141547043110684&w=2



Are you sure that iProc isn't based on the BCMA bus infrastructure after
all? Even the physical address of your PCI host falls into the address
range that is used for the internal BCMA bus on the other chips!

BCMA seems to be for MIPS architectures.  It seems to be quite specific to
those architectures using BCMA.  I see no use of it in bcm53xx code?

BCMA lives in its own directory in drivers/bcma/ and is not specific
to MIPS actually. Older BCM47xx/BCM53xx MIPS-based SoCs traditionally
started with a discoverable Silicon Sonics Backplane (drivers/ssb) and
progressively migrated to BCMA (drivers/bcma), both subsystems offer a
very similar bus/device/driver abstraction and discovery mechanism.

BCMA core is the bus driver for discoverable ARM AXI interconnect. Apart from that it also provides drivers for some cores. For the chips to be discoverable it needs additional IP logic. If that is not used in the iProc family devices, it can not use the BCMA-based PCIe controller driver that Hauke submitted unless BCMA would provide an API to provide the chips' core information statically either per core or a full list.

Regards,
Arend
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