Re: [PATCH V5 2/3] ARM64 LPC: Add missing range exception for special ISA

Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2016-11-08T23:14:41Z

On Tue, 2016-11-08 at 11:49 +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
>
> My understanding of ISA (which may be flawed) is that it's not part of
> the PCI host bridge, but rather on x86 it happens to share the IO space
> with PCI.

Sort-of. On some systems it actually goes through PCI and there's a
PCI->ISA bridge that uses substractive decoding to the legacy devices.

> So, how about this becomes:
>
>   Hisilicon Hip06 SoCs implement a Low Pin Count (LPC) controller, which
>   provides access to some legacy ISA devices.
>
> I believe that we could theoretically have multiple independent LPC/ISA
> busses, as is possible with PCI on !x86 systems. If the current ISA code
> assumes a singleton bus, I think that's something that needs to be fixed
> up more generically.
>
> I don't see why we should need any architecture-specific code here. Why
> can we not fix up the ISA bus code in drivers/of/address.c such that it
> handles multiple ISA bus instances, and translates all sub-device
> addresses relative to the specific bus instance?

What in that code prevents that today ?

Cheers,
Ben.