Re: [PATCH 4/5] PCI: designware: Add setup bus-related to pcie_host_ops

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Hi Arnd, Jingoo,

On 18 December 2014 at 05:58, Jingoo Han <jg1.han@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday, December 18, 2014 7:16 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Wednesday 17 December 2014 11:34:45 Gabriel FERNANDEZ wrote:
>> > ST sti SoCs PCIe IPs are built around DesignWare IP Core.
>> > But in these SoCs PCIe IP doesn't support IO.
>
> Hi Gabriel,
>
> I cannot understand how ST sti SoCs PCIe IP does not support I/O.
> As far as I know, it cannot be selected by the 'parameter'.
> Then, H/W engineers dropped out the I/O control logic?
>
>> >
>> > To support this, add setup_bus() to pcie_host_ops.
>
>
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Fabrice Gasnier <fabrice.gasnier@xxxxxx>
>> > Signed-off-by: Gabriel Fernandez <gabriel.fernandez@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> The dw-pcie driver should be able to tell whether the device has
>> an I/O space or not, and do the right thing based on that. Don't
>> add an implementation specific callback for that.
>
> I agree with Arnd's opinion.
>
> In addition, I have one more question.
> Then, if a device that requires I/O region is connected to
> PCIe slot of ST sti SoCs PCIe, what will happen?
> It just prints error messages?
>
> Best regards,
> Jingoo Han
>
>>
>>       Arnd
>

Arnd in other post mention to add an empty I/O space to workaround
lack of I/O port access.
Is it the right thing to do ?
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-November/299623.html

Best regards
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