Re: PCI express switch

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On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:42 AM, Miguel Ángel Álvarez
<caronteycerbero@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> We are developing a board using a Freescale P2020. This micro has
> three PCIexpress ports. 2 1xlane PCIe and 1 2xlane PCIe.
>
> We have been able to successfully use the PCIe interfaces.
>
> However, now we want to expand the number of PCIe slots connecting the
> 2xlane PCIe to a PCIe switch (89HPES6T5E). This switch offers a 2xlane
> upstream port and 4 1xlane downstream ports.
>
> The problem is that we do not really know how PCIe switches are
> managed in Linux. If any of you can recommend us some resources to
> read, we will appreciate it very much.

pcie switch should show as three or more pci bridges in the pci tree.

>
> If there is no information to read, let me describe our main problem.
>
> The question is that if I let u-boot scan the PCIe, the upstream and
> downstream ports are detected as well as the cards connected to the
> downstream port. However when u-boot launches Linux, this last just
> finds a device (the HPES6T5E), and none of the downstream ports or
> card connected to them.
>
>
> I know that the problem could be in the u-boot, so I am trying to
> analyse its code also... but I think there could be something in Linux
> I am not taking into account yet.

can you post whole log with pci debug enabled?

Thanks

Yinghai
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