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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: "Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com>
Cc: "Patrick Mochel (mochel@osdl.org)" <mochel@osdl.org>,
	"'davem@redhat.com'" <davem@redhat.com>,
	"'Greg@kroah.com'" <Greg@kroah.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pci segments/domains
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 15:33:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CE4098E.2070808@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <59885C5E3098D511AD690002A5072D3C02AB7E45@orsmsx111.jf.intel.com>

Grover, Andrew wrote:

>Well, ACPI calls them "segments" but a previous discussion (c.f. "RFC:
>Changes for PCI" from a year ago) called them domains.
>
>I don't care what they're called, but I wanted to bring them up and see what
>everyone thought about how best to implement them, or at least if anyone had
>an objection to adding a "segment" parameter to pci_scan_root.
>
>I certainly don't have a machine that uses these but some people do, and it
>sounds like it would be nice to handle them in an arch-neutral way.
>

alpha and sparc64 at least already do them.

I wouldn't mind making the PCI domain support a bit more explicit, 
though.  I think it's fair to be able to obtain a pointer to "struct 
pci_domain", which would most likely be defined in asm/pci.h for each arch.

    Jeff




  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-05-16 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-14  2:07 pci segments/domains Grover, Andrew
2002-05-14  2:08 ` David S. Miller
2002-05-16 19:33 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-05-17  1:31   ` David S. Miller
2002-05-16 23:10     ` Pavel Machek
2002-05-17 10:47   ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2002-05-17 10:40     ` David S. Miller
2002-05-17 11:11       ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2002-05-17 11:04         ` David S. Miller
2002-05-17 11:39           ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2002-05-17 11:41             ` David S. Miller
2002-05-17 12:26               ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2002-05-17 12:15                 ` David S. Miller
2002-05-17 14:24     ` Jeff Garzik
2002-05-17 14:16       ` David S. Miller
2002-05-17 14:33         ` Jeff Garzik
2002-05-17 14:26           ` David S. Miller
2002-05-17 14:42             ` Jeff Garzik
2002-05-17 16:24               ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2002-05-17 16:53                 ` David S. Miller

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