On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 09:37:05AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
On 04/29/11 02:41, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 08:28:40PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: [...]
I think it would be better to define the kconfig variables needed (eg, PCIMEM_START, PCIMEM_SIZE, PCIMEM_PREFMEM_SIZE) [...]
Hrmm - on second thought, we know the PCI range should end at 0xfec00000, so I think kconfig only really needs to ask for PCIMEM_SIZE and PCIMEM_PREFMEM_SIZE.
I think it is better to ask for the start address, then calculate the memory window size like the patch does as the size is a odd value (0x0ec00000) and I guess for most people it isn't obvious why ...
In case we have a separate window prefetchable memory we'll need one of the sizes too (then calculate the other).
Is there any reason why there is a fixed split, other than making the code simpler (i.e. need only one instead of two passes over all pci devices)?
Because pci-to-pci bridge handles memory access and preferchable memory access differently. They are filtered by memory base/limit register and preferchable memory base/limit register. So in order to support multi pci buses, memory and preferchable memory needs to be handled separately.
I guess you're familiar with Linux kernel. Linux kernel also does so. linux/drivers/pci/setup-bus.c has pci_setup_bridge_mmio() and pci_setup_bridge_mmio_pref()
thanks,