[+cc devicetree, linux-arm-kernel] On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 1:05 PM, shiv prakash Agarwal <chhotu.shiv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 12:29 AM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 11:32 AM, shiv prakash Agarwal >> <chhotu.shiv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> How devices config spaces are mapped to host memory? >>> Is it being handled by core driver? I could not locate. >> >> The PCI core does not map config space into memory. That's not even >> possible for the legacy config access methods, e.g., using I/O ports >> 0xcf8 and 0xcfc [1]. >> >> If you're wondering about how Linux uses ECAM, that's mostly in >> arch/x86/pci/mmconfig*. That code does ioremap the ECAM area into >> kernel virtual space, but only for access via pci_read_config_word(), >> pci_write_config_word(), etc. >> >> Bjorn >> >> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_configuration_space#Software_implementation > > Thanks Bjorn for quick reply, > > Above reference says: > During system initialization, firmware determines the base address for > this “stolen” address region and communicates it to the root complex > and to the operating system. This communication method is > implementation-specific, and not defined in the PCI Express > specification. > > How above is implemented on ARM? On x86, we learn the ECAM address via ACPI (the MCFG table or a host bridge _CBA method). I don't know how this is done on ARM. I could imagine it being done via device tree, but I really don't know. Unfortunately both the address discovery and the actual ECAM accesses are in arch-specific code. Bjorn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
