Re: Going beyond 256 PCI buses

David S. Miller
2001-06-14T19:58:16Z

Jeff Garzik writes:
> Thinking a bit more independently of bus type, and with an eye toward's
> 2.5's s/pci_dev/device/ and s/pci_driver/driver/, would it be useful to
> go ahead and codify the concept of PCI domains into a more generic
> concept of bus tree numbers? (or something along those lines) That
> would allow for a more general picture of the entire system's device
> tree, across buses.
>
> First sbus bus is tree-0, first PCI bus tree is tree-1, second PCI bus
> tree is tree-2, ...

If you're going to do something like this, ie. true hierarchy, why not
make one tree which is "system", right? Use /proc/bus/${controllernum}
ala:

/proc/bus/0/type --> "sbus", "pci", "zorro", etc.
/proc/bus/0/* --> for type == "pci" ${bus}/${dev}.${fn}
for type == "sbus" ${slot}
...

How about this?

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com