RE: PCI Express support for 2.4 kernel

From: Nakajima, Jun
Date: Mon Dec 15 2003 - 15:11:09 EST


> > +/**
> > + * RRBAR (memory base for PCI-E config space) resides here.
> > + * Initialized to default address. Actually, it is platform
specific,
> and
> > + * value may vary.
> > + * I don't know how to detect it properly, it is chipset specific.
> > + */
> > +static u32 rrbar_phys=0xe0000000UL;

Sorry, this patch is not appropriate because it's hard coding this
chipset-specific address. The way of getting this address is being
defined by a public specification (I cannot tell which spec now).

Jun

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-kernel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-kernel-
> owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Greg KH
> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 2:07 AM
> To: Kondratiev, Vladimir
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Alan Cox; Marcelo Tosatti
> Subject: Re: PCI Express support for 2.4 kernel
>
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 10:00:49PM +0200, Vladimir Kondratiev wrote:
> > Please, ignore previous submission with the same subject. Patch file
> > attached was wrong one. Now correct patch attached.
> >
> > Hi,
> > PCI-Express platforms will soon appear on the market. It is worth to
> > support it.
>
> Yes it is worth it, any chance to get access to hardware to test this
> out on?
>
> > Following is patch for 2.4.23 kernel. I tested it on my host, it
works
> > properly.
> > I did it for i386 only, I have no other architecture to test.
> >
> > It was patch on the same subject from* Seshadri, Harinarayanan*
> > (/harinarayanan.seshadri@xxxxxxxxx/
> > <mailto:harinarayanan.seshadri@xxxxxxxxx>)
> > http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2003-17/0247.html
> > My version differ in several aspects: it is for 2.4 (vs. 2.6); it do
not
> > ioremap/unmap page for each transaction.
> >
> > How about inclusion in 2.4.24?
>
> No, we need to get this into 2.6 first. Can you please forward port
> this to 2.6, clean up the formatting and address the issues everyone
> else has made so far and post it?
>
> > * command line argument "pci=exp" to force PCI Express, similar to
> "conf1" and "conf2"
>
> We should be able to do this automatically, and not force this on the
> boot command line, correct?
>
> > +/**
> > + * RRBAR (memory base for PCI-E config space) resides here.
> > + * Initialized to default address. Actually, it is platform
specific,
> and
> > + * value may vary.
> > + * I don't know how to detect it properly, it is chipset specific.
> > + */
> > +static u32 rrbar_phys=0xe0000000UL;
>
> How about information on how to detect it as per chipset type? We
need
> to do this automatically some how.
>
> > +/**
> > + * Initializes PCI Express method for config space access.
> > + *
> > + * There is no standard method to recognize presence of PCI
Express,
>
> Are you sure? I thought there was (don't have my spec in front of me
> right now...)
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
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