PCI Hotplug Drivers for 2.5

PCI Hotplug Drivers for 2.5

[Lee, Jung-Ik]

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Greg,

Please find the attached ACPI based PCI Hotplug driver.
 intcphp:
    Php driver source for Compaq or compatible Intel Hotplug
    controllers on IA32 or DIG64-ACPI compliant IA64 platforms.

    intcphp driver is overhauled per your requirements:
    + Abstraction module is removed.
      It's now two modules driver like others.
    + typedefs are removed except callback function.
    + LINUX_VERSION checks are removed.

	intcphp is much based on cpqphp driver but has been modified to be
controller independent on DIG64/ACPI compliant IPF servers as well as
non-ACPI based IA32 servers. Thus code looks similar but integration is not
that easy and will take time and consents of affected drivers owners.
	We understand there needs more integration and cleanup to make
common codes to pci_hotplug core as you indicated. This task, however,
requires time and changes in every php driver with owners' consensus on
common php controller/slot objects, while satisfying requirements in the
near future. We look forward to discussing this with you and other
contributors.
	Until then, please allow us to co-exist this driver.

Thanks,
	Jung-Ik Lee/Intel,
	Takayoshi Kochi/NEC,
	Tony Luck/Intel

====================================================
+ Patch is against 2.5.39 but should apply to 2.5.41 or later.
+ acpiphp driver is not included in this patch.
+ Required drivers/acpi patch and arch/ia64/pci patch have 
  already been accepted by respective owners, and excluded
  from this patch.

 Config.help    |   10 
 Config.in      |    1 
 Makefile       |   22 
 intcphp_core.c |  799 ++++++++++++++++
 intcphp_ctrl.c | 1795 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 intcphp_hpc.c  | 1333 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 intcphp_pci.c  | 1179 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 intcphp_proc.c |  196 +++
 phpdvr.h       |  590 +++++++++++
 phprm.h        |   56 +
 phprm_acpi.c   | 2824
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 11 files changed, 8805 insertions(+)


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Re: PCI Hotplug Drivers for 2.5

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 09:33:09PM -0700, Lee, Jung-Ik wrote:
> Greg,
> 
> Please find the attached ACPI based PCI Hotplug driver.

But the code you sent has all of the ACPI stuff not enabled, right?

As an example from your patch:

+enum php_ctlr_type phphpc_get_ctlr_type()
+{
+       return PCI;
+}

It never returns any other type, so the ACPI or ISA sections of the
driver will never get called.  Or am I missing something?

>  intcphp:
>     Php driver source for Compaq or compatible Intel Hotplug
>     controllers on IA32 or DIG64-ACPI compliant IA64 platforms.

So this overloads the current Compaq driver?  It looks like this "new"
driver will also handle all of the same controllers the current Compaq
driver does, right?  If not, it sure looks like you are accepting all of
the same PCI ID values :)

>     intcphp driver is overhauled per your requirements:
>     + Abstraction module is removed.
>       It's now two modules driver like others.

Thank you for making this change, I appreciate it.

>     + typedefs are removed except callback function.

Thanks.

>     + LINUX_VERSION checks are removed.

And replaced with the odd BEFORE_2_5 check :)
Please just rip these out and send a version that is only for the 2.5
kernel.

Some of your #ifdef CONFIG_IA64 should be moved to header files only
(and probably documented why you really need to sleep extra amounts for
ia64 machines only.

What's the #ifdef WORK_QUEUE for?

> 	intcphp is much based on cpqphp driver but has been modified to be
> controller independent on DIG64/ACPI compliant IPF servers as well as
> non-ACPI based IA32 servers. Thus code looks similar but integration is not
> that easy and will take time and consents of affected drivers owners.

The code looks _very_ similar.  In fact, at first glance it looks like
almost a straight copy of the existing Compaq code.  Why not just submit
a patch against that driver that adds the extra functionality that you
need for your hardware?  That would be much smaller, and decrease the
amount of duplicated code in the kernel tree.

Also, why doesn't the ACPI PCI hotplug driver work for your machines?
I've seen it work on a very wide range of processors (i386 and ia64),
and manufacturers, and any specific issues with your hardware would
probably be better addressed with patches to the existing ACPI driver.

> 	We understand there needs more integration and cleanup to make
> common codes to pci_hotplug core as you indicated. This task, however,
> requires time and changes in every php driver with owners' consensus on
> common php controller/slot objects, while satisfying requirements in the
> near future. We look forward to discussing this with you and other
> contributors.

Great, I do too.  Please, make a proposal about what to merge into the
core.  I do NOT want to see another driver have to duplicate the PCI
resource management code again without a very good reason for doing it.

> 	Until then, please allow us to co-exist this driver.

There's no rush, let's work together to get this done properly.

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: PCI Hotplug Drivers for 2.5

[KOCHI, Takayoshi]

Hi,

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 22:10:08 -0700
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:

> Also, why doesn't the ACPI PCI hotplug driver work for your machines?
> I've seen it work on a very wide range of processors (i386 and ia64),
> and manufacturers, and any specific issues with your hardware would
> probably be better addressed with patches to the existing ACPI driver.

The ACPI spec provides very limited control of actual hardware
(With ACPI, we don't have common method for controlling such as Bus
speed, LED etc.).
So if a hardware comes with well-documented hotplug controller, we
can achieve finer control over the hardware.

The SHPC specification defines it still depends on ACPI for managing
resources, etc.  So resource management portion can be and *should be*
shared with all PCI hotplug drivers that use ACPI for resource
management.

I think the most important thing is everyone agree on the direction
in which we should go before we code anything, in order not to waste
our time.

Thanks,
-- 
KOCHI, Takayoshi <t-kouchi@cq.jp.nec.com/t-kouchi@mvf.biglobe.ne.jp>

Re: PCI Hotplug Drivers for 2.5

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 10:59:34PM -0700, KOCHI, Takayoshi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 22:10:08 -0700
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> 
> > Also, why doesn't the ACPI PCI hotplug driver work for your machines?
> > I've seen it work on a very wide range of processors (i386 and ia64),
> > and manufacturers, and any specific issues with your hardware would
> > probably be better addressed with patches to the existing ACPI driver.
> 
> The ACPI spec provides very limited control of actual hardware
> (With ACPI, we don't have common method for controlling such as Bus
> speed, LED etc.).
> So if a hardware comes with well-documented hotplug controller, we
> can achieve finer control over the hardware.

Ah, I didn't realize this.  So for some machines (like IBM's x440), we
should stick with using the hotplug controller driver, instead of using
the ACPI driver.  Sounds reasonable to me.

> The SHPC specification defines it still depends on ACPI for managing
> resources, etc.  So resource management portion can be and *should be*
> shared with all PCI hotplug drivers that use ACPI for resource
> management.
> 
> I think the most important thing is everyone agree on the direction
> in which we should go before we code anything, in order not to waste
> our time.

I think we now all agree that resource management should move into a
place where it can be shared by all pci hotplug drivers, right?

If so, anyone want to propose some common code?  I think the stuff in
the ACPI driver that was pulled from the Compaq driver is a great start.
I can try to pull this into the core myself, but if the Intel developers
have the time, and energy, I would greatly appreciate their help (or
anyone else who wants to join in.)

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: PCI Hotplug Drivers for 2.5

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:12:36PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> I think we now all agree that resource management should move into a
> place where it can be shared by all pci hotplug drivers, right?
> 
> If so, anyone want to propose some common code?  I think the stuff in
> the ACPI driver that was pulled from the Compaq driver is a great start.
> I can try to pull this into the core myself, but if the Intel developers
> have the time, and energy, I would greatly appreciate their help (or
> anyone else who wants to join in.)

We already _have_ a lot of common code in drivers/pci, but it's not
compiled in for x86 or ia64.  some other architectures don't assign PCI
resources in the `BIOS' so we get to do it.  setup-bus.c, setup-res.c
and setup-irq.c all seem to duplicate some part of the code currently
found in each and every hotplug driver.

-- 
Revolutions do not require corporate support.

Re: PCI Hotplug Drivers for 2.5

[Jeff Garzik]

Greg KH wrote:
>>The SHPC specification defines it still depends on ACPI for managing
>>resources, etc.  So resource management portion can be and *should be*
>>shared with all PCI hotplug drivers that use ACPI for resource
>>management.
>>
>>I think the most important thing is everyone agree on the direction
>>in which we should go before we code anything, in order not to waste
>>our time.
> 
> 
> I think we now all agree that resource management should move into a
> place where it can be shared by all pci hotplug drivers, right?
> 
> If so, anyone want to propose some common code?


drivers/pci/setup* is not enough?

I am surprised that anything needed to be added here...

Re: PCI Hotplug Drivers for 2.5

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:52:09AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> >I think we now all agree that resource management should move into a
> >place where it can be shared by all pci hotplug drivers, right?
> >
> >If so, anyone want to propose some common code?
> 
> 
> drivers/pci/setup* is not enough?
> 
> I am surprised that anything needed to be added here...

There was some reason that code would not work out when I looked at it
over a year ago.  But I don't remember why, so I'll go look at it again,
thanks for pointing it out.

greg k-h

Re: [Pcihpd-discuss] Re: PCI Hotplug Drivers for 2.5

[Scott Murray]

On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Greg KH wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:52:09AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Greg KH wrote:
> > >I think we now all agree that resource management should move into a
> > >place where it can be shared by all pci hotplug drivers, right?
> > >
> > >If so, anyone want to propose some common code?
> >
> >
> > drivers/pci/setup* is not enough?
> >
> > I am surprised that anything needed to be added here...
>
> There was some reason that code would not work out when I looked at it
> over a year ago.  But I don't remember why, so I'll go look at it again,
> thanks for pointing it out.

I don't know if you looked at my cPCI driver patch in detail, but it uses
the setup-*.c code for all of its resource management.  The only things
that were really missing in 2.4.x were:

- exports of a few things, most notably pci_scan_bridge
- code to update the resource windows of a newly added bridge (recursively)
- a pci_write_bridge_bases
- PCI resource reservation to allow hot insertion on dumb cPCI hardware
- on x86, the smarts to work back to the root PCI bus to figure out the
  IRQ pin to use when looking in the pirq table

Since I've been swamped with other stuff, I just started finally porting
my cPCI stuff to 2.5 yesterday. :(  I think I can get it up and running
relatively quickly, but figuring out Ivan's newer hotplug helper code
and how to take advantage of it might take me a couple of days.

Scott


-- 
Scott Murray
SOMA Networks, Inc.
Toronto, Ontario
e-mail: scottm@somanetworks.com

Re: [Pcihpd-discuss] Re: PCI Hotplug Drivers for 2.5

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 01:44:06PM -0400, Scott Murray wrote:
> 
> I don't know if you looked at my cPCI driver patch in detail, but it uses
> the setup-*.c code for all of its resource management.

I'm sorry, but I only glanced at it and missed this point.

> The only things that were really missing in 2.4.x were:
> 
> - exports of a few things, most notably pci_scan_bridge
> - code to update the resource windows of a newly added bridge (recursively)
> - a pci_write_bridge_bases
> - PCI resource reservation to allow hot insertion on dumb cPCI hardware
> - on x86, the smarts to work back to the root PCI bus to figure out the
>   IRQ pin to use when looking in the pirq table

All of these seem like things that should belong in the setup-*.c files
for others to use.

> Since I've been swamped with other stuff, I just started finally porting
> my cPCI stuff to 2.5 yesterday. :(  I think I can get it up and running
> relatively quickly, but figuring out Ivan's newer hotplug helper code
> and how to take advantage of it might take me a couple of days.

Nice, I was wondering what happened.  I'll go dig up your older patch
and take a closer look at it.

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: [Pcihpd-discuss] Re: PCI Hotplug Drivers for 2.5

[Scott Murray]

On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Greg KH wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 01:44:06PM -0400, Scott Murray wrote:
> >
> > I don't know if you looked at my cPCI driver patch in detail, but it uses
> > the setup-*.c code for all of its resource management.
>
> I'm sorry, but I only glanced at it and missed this point.

No problemo, I kind of vanished off the face of the earth after my last
mention of releasing a 2.5 patch, which was over a month and a half ago.
Now that we've got our new hardware platform up and running here at SOMA,
I'm back in a position to work on hotplug stuff again.

> > The only things that were really missing in 2.4.x were:
> >
> > - exports of a few things, most notably pci_scan_bridge
> > - code to update the resource windows of a newly added bridge (recursively)
> > - a pci_write_bridge_bases
> > - PCI resource reservation to allow hot insertion on dumb cPCI hardware
> > - on x86, the smarts to work back to the root PCI bus to figure out the
> >   IRQ pin to use when looking in the pirq table
>
> All of these seem like things that should belong in the setup-*.c files
> for others to use.

I think Ivan's new code in setup-bus.c (pbus_size_bridges and friends)
removes the need for a pci_write_bridge_bases and my code to update the
bridge resource windows.  I hope so, since I've changed my driver to use
it! ;)

> > Since I've been swamped with other stuff, I just started finally porting
> > my cPCI stuff to 2.5 yesterday. :(  I think I can get it up and running
> > relatively quickly, but figuring out Ivan's newer hotplug helper code
> > and how to take advantage of it might take me a couple of days.
>
> Nice, I was wondering what happened.  I'll go dig up your older patch
> and take a closer look at it.

I hopefully will have something working against 2.5.44 tomorrow.  I think
the only potentially contentious piece that I'd like to get reviewed and
maybe integrated before the feature freeze is the resource reservation
stuff.  There seemed to be no serious objections to the 2.4.x version I
posted a while back, so maybe this won't be a big deal.  Everything else
is either __devinit/export tweaks or driver code.

Scott


-- 
Scott Murray
SOMA Networks, Inc.
Toronto, Ontario
e-mail: scottm@somanetworks.com

Re: [Pcihpd-discuss] Re: PCI Hotplug Drivers for 2.5

[Ivan Kokshaysky]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 06:22:44PM -0400, Scott Murray wrote:
> I hopefully will have something working against 2.5.44 tomorrow.  I think
> the only potentially contentious piece that I'd like to get reviewed and
> maybe integrated before the feature freeze is the resource reservation
> stuff.  There seemed to be no serious objections to the 2.4.x version I
> posted a while back, so maybe this won't be a big deal.  Everything else
> is either __devinit/export tweaks or driver code.

The setup-bus code already does resource reservation, but only for
cardbus. It can be easily extended for any type of hotplug
controller though. Other enhancements (like configurable amount
of reserved IO/memory) also shouldn't be a problem.

Also I have a patch (appended) that allows to use pbus_size_bridges()
for cardbus bridges (which have different resource layout vs. PCI-to-PCI
ones).

BTW, 2.5 setup-* stuff went into 2.4 recently. :-)

Ivan.

--- 2.5.36/drivers/pci/setup-res.c	Wed Sep 18 04:59:13 2002
+++ linux/drivers/pci/setup-res.c	Thu Sep 19 19:31:45 2002
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ pci_assign_resource(struct pci_dev *dev,
 }
 
 /* Sort resources by alignment */
-void __init
+void __devinit
 pdev_sort_resources(struct pci_dev *dev, struct resource_list *head)
 {
 	int i;
--- 2.5.36/drivers/pci/setup-bus.c	Wed Sep 18 04:58:56 2002
+++ linux/drivers/pci/setup-bus.c	Thu Sep 19 19:29:04 2002
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 
 #define ROUND_UP(x, a)		(((x) + (a) - 1) & ~((a) - 1))
 
-static int __init
+static int __devinit
 pbus_assign_resources_sorted(struct pci_bus *bus)
 {
 	struct list_head *ln;
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ pbus_assign_resources_sorted(struct pci_
    requires that if there is no I/O ports or memory behind the
    bridge, corresponding range must be turned off by writing base
    value greater than limit to the bridge's base/limit registers.  */
-static void __init
+static void __devinit
 pci_setup_bridge(struct pci_bus *bus)
 {
 	struct pbus_set_ranges_data ranges;
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ pci_setup_bridge(struct pci_bus *bus)
 /* Check whether the bridge supports optional I/O and
    prefetchable memory ranges. If not, the respective
    base/limit registers must be read-only and read as 0. */
-static void __init
+static void __devinit
 pci_bridge_check_ranges(struct pci_bus *bus)
 {
 	u16 io;
@@ -206,20 +206,38 @@ pci_bridge_check_ranges(struct pci_bus *
 		b_res[2].flags |= IORESOURCE_MEM | IORESOURCE_PREFETCH;
 }
 
+/* Find first free bus resource of a given type */
+static struct resource * __devinit
+pbus_find_resource(struct pci_bus *bus, unsigned long type)
+{
+	int i;
+	struct resource *r;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < PCI_BUS_NUM_RESOURCES; i++) {
+		r = bus->resource[i];
+		if (r && !((r->flags ^ type) & type) && !r->parent)
+			return r;
+	}
+	return NULL;
+}
+
 /* Sizing the IO windows of the PCI-PCI bridge is trivial,
    since these windows have 4K granularity and the IO ranges
    of non-bridge PCI devices are limited to 256 bytes.
    We must be careful with the ISA aliasing though. */
-static void __init
+static void __devinit
 pbus_size_io(struct pci_bus *bus)
 {
 	struct list_head *ln;
-	struct resource *b_res = bus->resource[0];
+	struct resource *b_res = pbus_find_resource(bus, IORESOURCE_IO);
 	unsigned long size = 0, size1 = 0;
 
-	if (!(b_res->flags & IORESOURCE_IO))
+	if (!b_res)
 		return;
 
+	DBGC((KERN_INFO "PCI: found %s resource %ld for IO\n",
+			bus->name, b_res - bus->resource[0]));
+
 	for (ln=bus->devices.next; ln != &bus->devices; ln=ln->next) {
 		struct pci_dev *dev = pci_dev_b(ln);
 		int i;
@@ -259,15 +277,21 @@ pbus_size_io(struct pci_bus *bus)
 
 /* Calculate the size of the bus and minimal alignment which
    guarantees that all child resources fit in this size. */
-static void __init
+static int __devinit
 pbus_size_mem(struct pci_bus *bus, unsigned long mask, unsigned long type)
 {
 	struct list_head *ln;
 	unsigned long min_align, align, size;
 	unsigned long aligns[12];	/* Alignments from 1Mb to 2Gb */
 	int order, max_order;
-	struct resource *b_res = (type & IORESOURCE_PREFETCH) ?
-				 bus->resource[2] : bus->resource[1];
+	struct resource *b_res = pbus_find_resource(bus, type);
+
+	if (!b_res)
+		return 0;
+
+	DBGC((KERN_INFO "PCI: found %s resource %ld for %s\n",
+			bus->name, b_res - bus->resource[0],
+			type & IORESOURCE_PREFETCH ? "PREF" : "MEM"));
 
 	memset(aligns, 0, sizeof(aligns));
 	max_order = 0;
@@ -325,17 +349,18 @@ pbus_size_mem(struct pci_bus *bus, unsig
 	size = ROUND_UP(size, min_align);
 	if (!size) {
 		b_res->flags = 0;
-		return;
+		return 1;
 	}
 	b_res->start = min_align;
 	b_res->end = size + min_align - 1;
+	return 1;
 }
 
-void __init
+void __devinit
 pbus_size_bridges(struct pci_bus *bus)
 {
 	struct list_head *ln;
-	unsigned long mask, type;
+	unsigned long mask, prefetch;
 
 	for (ln=bus->children.next; ln != &bus->children; ln=ln->next)
 		pbus_size_bridges(pci_bus_b(ln));
@@ -348,17 +373,15 @@ pbus_size_bridges(struct pci_bus *bus)
 
 	pbus_size_io(bus);
 
-	mask = type = IORESOURCE_MEM;
+	mask = IORESOURCE_MEM;
+	prefetch = IORESOURCE_MEM | IORESOURCE_PREFETCH;
 	/* If the bridge supports prefetchable range, size it separately. */
-	if (bus->resource[2] &&
-	    bus->resource[2]->flags & IORESOURCE_PREFETCH) {
-		pbus_size_mem(bus, IORESOURCE_PREFETCH, IORESOURCE_PREFETCH);
-		mask |= IORESOURCE_PREFETCH;	/* Size non-prefetch only. */
-	}
-	pbus_size_mem(bus, mask, type);
+	if (pbus_size_mem(bus, prefetch, prefetch))
+		mask = prefetch;		/* Size non-prefetch only. */
+	pbus_size_mem(bus, mask, IORESOURCE_MEM);
 }
 
-void __init
+void __devinit
 pbus_assign_resources(struct pci_bus *bus)
 {
 	struct list_head *ln;
@@ -367,7 +390,8 @@ pbus_assign_resources(struct pci_bus *bu
 	if (found_vga) {
 		struct pci_bus *b;
 
-		/* Propagate presence of the VGA to upstream bridges */
+		/* Propagate presence of the VGA to upstream bridges.
+		   This hack eventually will go away. */
 		for (b = bus; b->parent; b = b->parent) {
 			b->resource[0]->flags |= IORESOURCE_BUS_HAS_VGA;
 		}

Re: [Pcihpd-discuss] Re: PCI Hotplug Drivers for 2.5

[Scott Murray]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 06:22:44PM -0400, Scott Murray wrote:
> > I hopefully will have something working against 2.5.44 tomorrow.  I think
> > the only potentially contentious piece that I'd like to get reviewed and
> > maybe integrated before the feature freeze is the resource reservation
> > stuff.  There seemed to be no serious objections to the 2.4.x version I
> > posted a while back, so maybe this won't be a big deal.  Everything else
> > is either __devinit/export tweaks or driver code.
>
> The setup-bus code already does resource reservation, but only for
> cardbus. It can be easily extended for any type of hotplug
> controller though. Other enhancements (like configurable amount
> of reserved IO/memory) also shouldn't be a problem.

Unfortunately, my take on the scheme used to reserve space for CardBus
bridges was that it only works on platforms that use the setup-*.c code
to do their complete PCI subsystem initialization.  On platforms like
x86, where the BIOS configures all the devices, something like my patch
is needed to fixup things to handle the desired reservation.  I'm not
finished getting things ported to 2.5 yet, I'll post a patch ASAP once
I've got everything workin.  If you're keen on devising an alternative
method, check put my old patch against 2.4.19 at:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=102866931731553&w=2

[snip]
> BTW, 2.5 setup-* stuff went into 2.4 recently. :-)

Cool, that definitely will make my life easier.

Thanks,

Scott


-- 
Scott Murray
SOMA Networks, Inc.
Toronto, Ontario
e-mail: scottm@somanetworks.com

Re: [Pcihpd-discuss] Re: PCI Hotplug Drivers for 2.5

[Russell King]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 06:02:31PM -0400, Scott Murray wrote:
> Unfortunately, my take on the scheme used to reserve space for CardBus
> bridges was that it only works on platforms that use the setup-*.c code
> to do their complete PCI subsystem initialization.  On platforms like
> x86, where the BIOS configures all the devices, something like my patch
> is needed to fixup things to handle the desired reservation.  I'm not
> finished getting things ported to 2.5 yet, I'll post a patch ASAP once
> I've got everything workin.  If you're keen on devising an alternative
> method, check put my old patch against 2.4.19 at:

I've been working on this in 2.5 this week - I've got something working,
Alan's happy with the concept as far as the resource allocation goes.

The cardbus reservation method is actually flawed in setup-*.c if you
want to get rid of the stuff in yenta.c - again, I've fixed this lot
in my 2.5 tree already, and the patch is pending an update to the x86
code to do what yenta.c was doing (only setup bridge resources of the
ones already programmed are bad/wrong.)

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html

Re: [Pcihpd-discuss] Re: PCI Hotplug Drivers for 2.5

[Scott Murray]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Russell King wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 06:02:31PM -0400, Scott Murray wrote:
> > Unfortunately, my take on the scheme used to reserve space for CardBus
> > bridges was that it only works on platforms that use the setup-*.c code
> > to do their complete PCI subsystem initialization.  On platforms like
> > x86, where the BIOS configures all the devices, something like my patch
> > is needed to fixup things to handle the desired reservation.  I'm not
> > finished getting things ported to 2.5 yet, I'll post a patch ASAP once
> > I've got everything workin.  If you're keen on devising an alternative
> > method, check put my old patch against 2.4.19 at:
>
> I've been working on this in 2.5 this week - I've got something working,
> Alan's happy with the concept as far as the resource allocation goes.
>
> The cardbus reservation method is actually flawed in setup-*.c if you
> want to get rid of the stuff in yenta.c - again, I've fixed this lot
> in my 2.5 tree already, and the patch is pending an update to the x86
> code to do what yenta.c was doing (only setup bridge resources of the
> ones already programmed are bad/wrong.)

This sounds like it could remove the need for my manually specified
resource reservation scheme, does your code currently support arbitrary
bridges, i.e. non-CardBus?

Thanks,

Scott


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Scott Murray
SOMA Networks, Inc.
Toronto, Ontario
e-mail: scottm@somanetworks.com