Re: Sharing PCIE driver between Microblaze and Arm zynq

[Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>]

On Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:45:01 +0100, Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> wrote:
> On 12/06/2012 10:27 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > [+cc linux-pci]
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com> wrote:
> >> Hi guys,
> >>
> >> I have a question regarding to sharing generic OF pcie driver between
> >> two architectures MB and ARM Zynq.
> >> Is drivers/pci/pcie location good for it?
> >> Make no sense to have the same driver in two locations.
> >
> > I think you're talking about a PCI host bridge driver.  It would
> > definitely be nice to move toward a generic, shared driver.  Host
> > bridge drivers are responsible for enumerating the PCI hierarchy below
> > the bridge.  Enumeration is not really PCIe-specific, so I wouldn't
> > put it in drivers/pci/pcie.
> 
> Not a PCI expert, just trying to find out the proper location for this shared driver.
> 
> 
> >> Is using readl/writel IO functions in this driver the best option
> >> which we can have?
> >> Or is there any other recommendation?
> >
> > I'm not really a driver person, but if you're writing a new driver,
> > wouldn't you use the iomap interfaces (ioremap(), ioread32(), etc)
> > rather than readl()?
> 
> That driver exists but it is not in mainline and it is better to directly
> add it to proper location with correct io functions.
> The question is if ioread/iowrite functions are correct one.
> PowerPC io-defs.h suggests that readl/writel should be used for PCI.
> 
> 
> >> Also just want to check if it is correct to use pcie device_type.
> >
> > I don't know what you're asking here.  Can you elaborate or give a
> > specific example?
> 
> If node property device_type pcie should be used.
> device_type = "pcie";
> 
> For pci it is device_type = "pci";
> For network it is device_type = "network"
> the same for serial, watchdogs.
> 
> Do we have any list of device_types which we should use?

Don't use them unless a binding requires it. PCI address lookup code
uses it, so we put it in those nodes. Otherwise device_type is
deprecated and has been for a long time now. You should not be using it
in .dts files.

g.