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From: thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com (Thomas Petazzoni)
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:01:19 +0100
Subject: [PATCH v2 07/27] PCI: Add software-emulated host bridge
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Dear Jason Gunthorpe,

On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:51:05 -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

> > > I'm refering to your earlier question about what PCI IDs to use for
> > > the SW emulated devices. If there is no need for the host bridge then
> > > you only need 1 PCI ID (for the root port bridge) and you can probably
> > > fairly safely re-use the one in the Marvell config space of the HW.
> > 
> > Ah, ok, I see. But isn't a host bridge needed to bind all the
> > PCI-to-PCI bridges under a single bus, in order to get the global
> > resource assignment I was referring to?
> 
> The PCI-E spec requires it, but AFAIK it doesn't actually *do*
> anything on Linux, and Linux doesn't require it.
> 
> I thought Thierry did this experiment and decided it wasn't necessary:

Could you detail what would be visible PCI bus topology if I remove the
emulated PCI host bridge? (And keeping one PCI-to-PCI bridge per PCIe
interface) ?

I'm just trying to understand what it would look like, in terms of
"lspci -t" output, because for now, it's not clear to me how everything
would fit together with the emulated host bridge.

Thanks,

Thomas
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