Re: [PATCH] PCI: designware: Remove unnecessary RC BAR setting

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On Wednesday, April 02, 2014 at 07:34:15 AM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 April 2014 11:03 AM, Mohit KUMAR DCG wrote:
> > Hello Jingoo,
> > 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Jingoo Han [mailto:jg1.han@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2014 10:53 AM
> >> To: Mohit KUMAR DCG
> >> Cc: 'Bjorn Helgaas'; linux-pci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Pratyush ANAND; 'Marek
> >> Vasut'; 'Richard Zhu'; 'Kishon Vijay Abraham I'
> >> Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: designware: Remove unnecessary RC BAR setting
> >> 
> >> On Wednesday, April 02, 2014 1:57 PM, Mohit KUMAR DCG wrote:
> >>> On Tuesday, April 01, 2014 4:00 PM, Jingoo Han wrote:
> >>>> According to the spec, the synopsys core does not implement the
> >>>> optional BARs such as BAR0/1. This is based on the assumption that
> >>>> the RC host probably has registers on some other internal bus and
> >>>> has knowledge and setup access to these registers already.
> >>>> So, remove unnecessary RC BAR setting.
> >>> 
> >>> - Normally BARs in RC are not used but somehow available in the
> >>> design. One possible BAR use can be if RC has some memory connected to
> >> 
> >> the BAR that needs to be accessed through link.
> >> 
> >>> Otherwise we can ignore BARs setup here.
> >> 
> >> Hi Mohit KUMAR DCG,
> >> 
> >> Thank you for your feedback.
> >> 
> >> I want to know whether or not other SoCs such as ST, Freescale, TI
> >> support BAR0/BAR1. If no SoC supports BAR0/BAR1, the unnecessary RC BAR
> >> setting code should  be removed.
> > 
> > - We are not currently using RC's BAR0/1 in any application but no such
> > restriction from HW as ST SoCs support BARs in HW design.
> 
> Neither do we in DRA7xx.

I suspect that means we should keep the code to make sure the registers are 
configured correctly, no?

Richard, can you comment on MX6 please ?

Best regards,
Marek Vasut
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