Re: [Qemu-ppc] [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 5/6] PPC 85xx: Find PCI host controllers on ppce500 from device tree

[Scott Wood]

On Fri, 2014-02-07 at 16:00 +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
> On 07.02.2014, at 15:54, Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On 06.02.2014, at 23:52, Scott Wood <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Thu, 2014-02-06 at 14:26 +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>> How about using fdt_translate_address() or other existing functionality?
> >>> 
> >>> Mind to show exactly how?
> >> 
> >> I guess you can't use that when you don't know the bus address, but
> >> still this is the wrong place to implement it.  If getting PCI range
> >> info from the device tree is something we want to do, then it should be
> >> a new common code helper.
> > 
> > The more I think about this the less of an idea I have how to do any 
> > generic API for this at all. And I'm not convinced anything generic is 
> > going to help anyone. Do a git grep on fdt_translate_address over the code 
> > base and you will find a _single_ caller.
> > 
> > So even if we come up with something now, nobody's going to use it.
> 
> Hrm. Maybe fdt_get_base_address() is the answer?

Yes, that looks close to what you want.  It'd have to be extended to
look for the various types of PCI ranges and return a (cpu address, bus
address, size) tuple rather than just a base address.

It's moot though if we can reprogram the PCI windows.

-Scott