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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Mike Day <ncmike@ncultra.org>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	tyreld@linux.vnet.ibm.com, nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	"qemu-ppc@nongnu.org" <qemu-ppc@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH v2 10/14] pci: allow 0 address for PCI IO regions
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 10:03:21 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1386716601.32037.83.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA_j=rP0xAnoc_eaK8XW8T5EjVvDsT=z0NvVyDWNf8FMjg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 2013-12-10 at 22:14 +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:

> Googling again brought up this mailing list thread:
> 
> http://www.pcisig.com/reflector/msg00459.html
> 
> which includes what is supposedly a quote from the PCI 2.1 spec:
> 
> # "Note: A Base Address register does not contain a valid
> # address when it is equal to "0""
> 
> (I don't have access to the 2.1 version to check.)
> 
> This text seems to have been removed from the 2.2 spec.

I have seen practical cases of both:

 - Systems where the FW sets up a BAR to 0 and considers it valid

 - Adapters that treat a BAR set to 0 as disabled

There's no win here. However it makes sense for qemu not to treat 0
as a special value, it's not necessary.

Cheers,
Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-10 23:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-05 22:32 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/14] spapr: add support for pci hotplug Michael Roth
2013-12-05 22:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 01/14] spapr: populate DRC entries for root dt node Michael Roth
2013-12-16  2:59   ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2013-12-16  4:54     ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-01-16 20:51       ` Michael Roth
2014-01-20  2:58         ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-01-20 14:12           ` Mike Day
2014-01-20 17:24           ` Michael Roth
2014-01-20 17:59             ` Mike Day
2014-01-20 18:51               ` Michael Roth
2013-12-05 22:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 02/14] spapr_pci: populate DRC dt entries for PHBs Michael Roth
2013-12-05 22:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 03/14] spapr: add helper to retrieve a PHB/device DrcEntry Michael Roth
2013-12-05 22:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 04/14] spapr_pci: add set-indicator RTAS interface Michael Roth
2013-12-16  4:26   ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-01-16 20:54     ` Michael Roth
2013-12-05 22:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 05/14] spapr_pci: add get/set-power-level RTAS interfaces Michael Roth
2013-12-16  3:09   ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-01-16 21:01     ` Michael Roth
2013-12-05 22:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 06/14] spapr_pci: add get-sensor-state RTAS interface Michael Roth
2013-12-05 22:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 07/14] spapr_pci: add ibm, configure-connector " Michael Roth
2013-12-05 22:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 08/14] memory: add memory_region_find_subregion Michael Roth
2013-12-05 22:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 09/14] pci: make pci_bar useable outside pci.c Michael Roth
2013-12-05 22:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 10/14] pci: allow 0 address for PCI IO regions Michael Roth
2013-12-05 23:33   ` Peter Maydell
2013-12-10 21:42     ` Michael Roth
2013-12-10 22:14       ` Peter Maydell
2013-12-10 23:03         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2013-12-12 14:34     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-12-05 22:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 11/14] spapr_pci: enable basic hotplug operations Michael Roth
2013-12-16  4:36   ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-01-16 21:22     ` Michael Roth
2013-12-05 22:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 12/14] spapr_events: re-use EPOW event infrastructure for hotplug events Michael Roth
2013-12-16  5:05   ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-01-16 21:32     ` Michael Roth
2013-12-05 22:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 13/14] spapr_events: event-scan RTAS interface Michael Roth
2013-12-16  4:57   ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2013-12-05 22:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 14/14] spapr_pci: emit hotplug add/remove events during hotplug Michael Roth
2013-12-16  5:06   ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-01-10  8:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/14] spapr: add support for pci hotplug Alexey Kardashevskiy

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