Re: Kernel cannot see PCI device

[Prashant Bhole <prashantsmailcenter@gmail.com>]

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de> wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 May 2011 23:43:08 Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>> On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 10:25 +0530, Prashant Bhole wrote:
>> > Fixed the problem by soft resetting the PCIe port in the function
>> > ppc460ex_pciex_port_init_hw().
>> > Is it a right thing to do?
>
> <snip>
>
>> Well, it's odd that you'd have to do that, maybe something the
>> bootloader is doing ?
>>
>> I personally don't mind but I'd like Stefan and/or Tirumala opinion on
>> this.
>
> Not sure. I had no problems with the PCIe cards I tested with the current
> code. But from my experience, this card reset behavior is highly card/device
> dependent.
>
> It would be good to know that this new code doesn't break detection of other
> PCIe cards/devices. Prashant, did you check this new code with other PCIe
> cards/devices as well? If this patch doesn't break other PCIe cards like the
> Intel PRO/1000, then:
>

I agree, this behavior is device specific. I have other boards with
different disk
controller chips. Those chips were detected without soft resetting the port.
New code has been checked with three PCIe devices:
Marvell 88SE9485, SiI 3132 and LSISAS2008.


-Prashant