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From: Stefan Roese <sr@denx•de>
To: benh@kernel•crashing.org
Cc: Ayman El-Khashab <AymanE@tanisys•com>,
	Victor Gallardo <vgallardo@amcc•com>,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: Problems with PCI-E devices not being detected with switch
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:48:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200810161048.45937.sr@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1224145785.7654.4.camel@pasglop>

On Thursday 16 October 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 10:03 +0200, Stefan Roese wrote:
> > Doing this unconditionally is not a good idea since we could have an old
> > (buggy) firmware which didn't configure the PCIe controller correctly.
> > But I really like your idea with the device-tree property to optionally
> > skip this re-configuration. Now we only need to find some "volunteer" to
> > do this job... ;)
>
> I don't have a problem adding support for testing that property and
> skipping most of the initial HW setup, basically treating the endpoint
> as pre-configured.
>
> What about using a value for "status" ?

No. "status" is already used to disable/skip the PCIe slot completely. For 
example on Canyonlands where PCIe#0 is multiplexed with the SATA port.

> Or an empty "configured" 
> property ? Ideally, it should have been the other way around, ie
> "unconfigured" for old/buggy stuff but I'm worried there may be existing
> out-of-tree device-trees without it :-)

Yeah. I could add this "configured" property to the current U-Boot version. 
Perhaps we should add some version information to it so that Linux could 
eventually decide to re-configure when the "configured" version is known to 
be buggy. What do you think?

Best regards,
Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-16  8:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-15 15:47 Problems with PCI-E devices not being detected with switch Ayman El-Khashab
2008-10-16  5:20 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-16  8:03   ` Stefan Roese
2008-10-16  8:29     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-16  8:48       ` Stefan Roese [this message]
2008-10-16  8:58         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-16 15:01   ` Ayman El-Khashab
2008-10-16 21:19     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-17  0:10     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-17  7:22       ` Stefan Roese
2008-10-17 14:54       ` Ayman El-Khashab
2008-10-17 21:05         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-17 21:19         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-20 21:03           ` Ayman El-Khashab
2008-10-20 21:57             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-20 22:14               ` Ayman El-Khashab
2008-10-20 22:55                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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