From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Gerhard Pircher" <gerhard_pircher@gmx.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, david@gibson.dropbear.id.au
Subject: Re: PCI I/O space -- reg or ranges?
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 23:01:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0273875e24b3ede33430f47f9babdff4@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070906205137.299990@gmx.net>
>>> Sure, it can be encoded like that. But does it make sense?
>>> You cannot use legacy I/O space as normal memory space.
>>
>> Why does it not make sense? I'm not sure what you mean by using it as
>> "normal memory space", but if the PCI bridge does a straightforward
>> linear mapping of I/O into memory space (like most non-x86 bridges
>> do),
>> it seems to make sense to me to reuse the existing ranges mechanism
>> rather than require each driver to have extra glue code.
> Well, pci_process_bridge_OF_ranges() only looks at the ranges property
> to
> ioremap() I/O space.
That's because it is the function that process the "ranges"
property, like its name shows ;-)
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-06 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-31 17:50 [RFC] AmigaOne device tree source v2 Gerhard Pircher
2007-09-03 1:34 ` David Gibson
2007-09-03 8:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-09-03 10:02 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-09-03 10:12 ` David Gibson
2007-09-03 16:11 ` Gerhard Pircher
2007-09-03 22:52 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-09-04 0:27 ` David Gibson
2007-09-06 13:31 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-09-04 12:20 ` Gerhard Pircher
2007-09-06 13:41 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-09-03 14:58 ` Gerhard Pircher
2007-09-03 22:32 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-09-04 11:49 ` Gerhard Pircher
2007-09-05 2:48 ` David Gibson
2007-09-05 11:54 ` Gerhard Pircher
2007-09-06 14:00 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-09-06 14:09 ` Sven Luther
2007-09-06 14:42 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-09-06 13:56 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-09-06 14:15 ` PCI I/O space -- reg or ranges? Scott Wood
2007-09-06 20:51 ` Gerhard Pircher
2007-09-06 21:01 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2007-09-07 0:20 ` [RFC] AmigaOne device tree source v2 David Gibson
2007-09-06 13:36 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-09-06 21:09 ` Gerhard Pircher
2007-09-07 0:21 ` David Gibson
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