Re: [PATCH 03/11] x86/dtb: Add a device tree for CE4100

[Mitch Bradley <wmb@firmworks.com>]

The usual layout is that the PCI bus is a direct child of
the root node, and the ISA bus is a child of the PCI bus.
That reflects the "Northbridge + Southbridge" wiring that
was common at the time that PCI was first introduced.
It's usually the case that faster and wider buses are closer
to the root, with speed and address width decreasing as you
go away from the root.

The fact that PCI configuration accesses are done via I/O
port 0x3fc doesn't make it a child of the ISA bus, because
I/O space is inherent in the x86 CPU architecture and thus
can be considered to be part of the root address space.

In the systems that I have worked with, the ISA bridge is a
first-class PCI device with a PCI config header, so it fits
naturally underneath the PCI bus.

Here are the properties for PCI and ISA on the OLPC XO-1.5
platform (Via C7 x86 CPU with Via VX855 IO chip):


ok dev /pci
ok .properties
interrupt-map            00000800 00000000 00000000 00000001 ff86bf34 0000000a 00000000
                         00006000 00000000 00000000 00000001 ff86bf34 0000000a 00000000
                         00008000 00000000 00000000 00000001 ff86bf34 0000000a 00000000
                         00008100 00000000 00000000 00000002 ff86bf34 00000009 00000000
                         00008200 00000000 00000000 00000003 ff86bf34 0000000b 00000000
                         00008400 00000000 00000000 00000004 ff86bf34 0000000a 00000000
                         0000a000 00000000 00000000 00000001 ff86bf34 00000009 00000000
interrupt-map-mask       0000ff00 00000000 00000000 00000007
#interrupt-cells         00000001
slot-names               00000000
slave-only               00000000
clock-frequency          01fca055
bus-range                00000000 00000000
#size-cells              00000002
#address-cells           00000003
device_type              pci
name                     pci

ok dev /pci/isa
ok .properties
devsel-speed             00000001
class-code               00060100
subsystem-vendor-id      0000152d
subsystem-id             00000833
max-latency              00000000
min-grant                00000000
revision-id              00000000
device-id                00008409
vendor-id                00001106
interrupt-parent         ff86bf34
#interrupt-cells         00000002
ranges                   00000000 00000000 02000000 00000000 00000000 01000000
                         00000001 00000000 01000000 00000000 00000000 00010000
clock-frequency          007ea5e0
reg                      00008800 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
#size-cells              00000001
#address-cells           00000002
device_type              isa
name                     isa

Note that the PCI node has no reg property.  On a system with multiple independent PCI buses at the top level, it would be necessary to distinguish them with reg properties reflecting their different addresses in the root address space.  PC-style architectures typically (always?) have a single top-level PCI domain, so I've never never needed to do that in x86 land.  It used to be pretty common on PPC "big iron".