Hi David,
On Wed, Apr 5, 2023 at 11:37 PM David Laight <David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Linuxppc-dev Arnd Bergmann
Sent: 05 April 2023 21:32
On Wed, Apr 5, 2023, at 22:00, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
On April 5, 2023 8:12:38 AM PDT, Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 2023-03-23 at 17:33 +0100, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
We introduce a new HAS_IOPORT Kconfig option to indicate support for I/O
Port access. In a future patch HAS_IOPORT=n will disable compilation of
the I/O accessor functions inb()/outb() and friends on architectures
which can not meaningfully support legacy I/O spaces such as s390.
Gentle ping. As far as I can tell this hasn't been picked to any tree
sp far but also hasn't seen complains so I'm wondering if I should send
a new version of the combined series of this patch plus the added
HAS_IOPORT dependencies per subsystem or wait until this is picked up.
You need this on a system supporting not just ISA but also PCI.
Typically on non-x86 architectures this is simply mapped into a memory window.
I'm pretty confident that the list is correct here, as the HAS_IOPORT
symbol is enabled exactly for the architectures that have a way to
map the I/O space. PCIe generally works fine without I/O space, the
only exception are drivers for devices that were around as early PCI.
Isn't there a difference between cpu that have inb()/outb() (probably
only x86?) and architectures (well computer designs) that can generate
PCI 'I/O' cycles by some means.
It isn't even just PCI I/O cycles, I've used an ARM cpu (SA1100)
that mapped a chuck of physical address space onto PCMCIA I/O cycles.
If the hardware can map a PCI 'IO' bar into normal kernel address
space then the bar and accesses can be treated exactly like a memory bar.
This probably leaves x86 as the outlier where you need (IIRC) io_readl()
and friends that can generate in/out instructions for those accesses.
There are also all the x86 ISA devices which need in/out instructions.
But (with the likely exception of the UART) they are pretty much
platform specific.
So, to my mind at least, HAS_IOPORT is just the wrong question.
Not all PCI controllers support mapping the I/O bar in MMIO space, so
in general you cannot say that CONFIG_PCI=y means CONFIG_HAS_IOPORT=y.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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