mptables and missing devices

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Eric W. Biederman <ebiederman at lnxi.com> [030930 00:16]:
> > Ok.. I think it's pretty easy doable if the bus number registers of the
> > bridges are filled reliably. Is this the case?
> 
> Yes.  And the bus number values are also in the device tree.  Which
> is where it would be better to read them from.  Just in case we have
> a non-standard pci bus.  Like the Opteron's multiple host bridges
> off of one cpu.

ack 

> > this is in the openfirmware kind of view a device node vs node property
> > consideration. Does a single slot need more information than the fact
> > that it's there?
> 
> Yes.  Which the irq routing information.
 
This information is also held in the pirq table. Can it be generated
from there or are there other caveats? It would be nice if a new board
only needs an adapted pirq table, no matter whether it provides an
mptable or not.

  Stefan


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