[PATCH v3 03/12] bus: mvebu-mbus: Add static window allocation to the DT binding

[ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com (Ezequiel Garcia)]

Hi Sebastian,

You loose +1 internet points for dropping me from Cc ;-)

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 09:27:28PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
> On 06/18/2013 09:10 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> >
> > The forms could be:
> >
> >   0IAA0000
> >   FK000000
> >     - K=0 ->  internal regs
> >     - K=1 ->  PCI-E thingy
> >      etc
> >   1IIAA000 (future expansion example)
> 
> Ok, got it. Any encoding is fine that allows to distinguish real
> remap windows and fake ones. I assumed that maybe someday there
> will be more than 4b target id so 0x80 as special case indicator
> leaves 7b of normal target id in the _current_ mapping.
> 

I'm also wondering about why we not care about target IDs being more
than 4 bits.

Jason: (I'm checking now but perhaps you know better than me):
Is there any MBus-architectural reason for you assuring the
target ID will always be within 4-bits?

Thanks,
-- 
Ezequiel Garc?a, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
http://free-electrons.com