Re: [PATCH] mips: Realtek RTL: select NO_EXCEPT_FILL

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On 19-02-2023 10:02, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 08:27:05PM +0100, Olliver Schinagl wrote:
It is the Realtek series of SoC, specifically in my case, the RTL9302b,
which doesn't have a PCI peripherial, at all :) Nor configured in the
devicetree, but of course generic_mips_kernel enables the drivers, which
should be noop. I don't see anything related to PCI during boot.

Having said that, the RTL930x series take their heritage from the RTL819x
(and probably older) wifi SoC series from realtek, which did contain a PCIe
peripherial, as that is where the (external) wifi chip was connected too.
I see, and you want to use the already existing wifi driver ?
Not at all, the rtl930x is a pure switch chip (10 serdes connecting to multiple PHY's yielding 24 - 48 (+ some SFP port) configurations, all without anything PCI related.

Do you have a programmers manual for it,
which contains details about the PCI bridge ?
If only. There are some (leaked) datasheets, that do contain the PCI
registers, mostly (obviously) the rtl819x datasheets. https://github.com/libc0607/Realtek_switch_hacking/blob/files/REALTEK-RTL8196E.pdf
is one such example that contains the PCIe registers.
that's just the PCIe PHY part, but not the localbus<->PCIe bridge
part. But if the wifi part of ypur SOC is directly connected to
the localbus, having the some PCI register won't help anyway.
I am afraid you need to go the route via extra Kconfig section.

It's still odd though; as we do not have _anything_ PCI, but it SWAP_IO_SPACE causes the crash.

So in that case, we'll wend up with a duplicate of generic_mips_kernel - SWAP_IO_SPACE, any suggestions of doing this cleanly in kconfig? copy pasting the whole shebang (and maintaining it) seems wasteful.

I suppose the chip is generic, except one thing makes it not generic :(


What makes SWAP_IO_SPACE generic then? :)


Thomas.





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