Re: [PATCH -v2] x86, pci: Handle fallout pci devices with peer root bus

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On 06/14/2010 11:34 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> 
> I made the point there that an HT chain may contain multiple HT/PCI
> host bridges, but you are stuck on the idea that "one HT chain == one
> PCI root bus."
> 
> I have not found the "one PCI host bridge per HT chain" requirement
> in the HT spec (if you find it, please point me to it).
> 
> If an HT chain may contain multiple HT/PCI host bridges, then it's
> obvious that the HT host bridge registers read by amd_bus.c don't
> contain enough information to correctly assign address space to the
> PCI root buses.
> 

A HT-to-PCI bridge appears as a PCI-to-PCI bridge (i.e. a Header Type 1
device), not as a host bridge (a Header Type 0 device).

That is at least the software model as defined.

	-hpa
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