Re: Associating nodes with phandles for pci devices

Arnd Bergmann
2015-01-23T19:15:06Z

On Friday 23 January 2015 19:02:33 Chris Packham wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm working on a new board that has a marvell,dsa switch. Similar to the kirkwood-mv88f6281gtw-ge board. However the major difference is that instead of being connected to an integrated Ethernet port it is connected via a PCI-e Ethernet port (basically a NIC hardwired onto the board).
>
> Generally you don't need to define PCI devices in the .dts because the bus is scanned at run time and the method for identifying devices is well defined. But to satisfy the marvell,dsa binding[1] I need to tell it the Ethernet port it is connected to. The answer might be in the PCI bindings but the urls in the documentation[2] don't appear to be valid anymore.
>
> Is it possible to enumerate PCI devices in the .dts? Or is there a way of satisfying the dsa requirements without knowing the Ethernet device?
>

In general, it is possible, and we do that on PowerPC, but it may be that
there are parts missing on ARM and you have to try it out.

In particular, you need to know the address of the PCI device and then
create a device node that will be associated with the pci_dev->dev.of_node
pointer.

Arnd