Re: [PATCH V5 2/3] ARM64 LPC: Add missing range exception for special ISA

[Mark Rutland]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 10:12:59AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-11-08 at 11:49 +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > I believe that we could theoretically have multiple independent LPC/ISA
> > busses, as is possible with PCI on !x86 systems. If the current ISA code
> > assumes a singleton bus, I think that's something that needs to be fixed
> > up more generically.
> > 
> > I don't see why we should need any architecture-specific code here. Why
> > can we not fix up the ISA bus code in drivers/of/address.c such that it
> > handles multiple ISA bus instances, and translates all sub-device
> > addresses relative to the specific bus instance?
> 
> What in that code prevents that today ?

It appears I was mistaken w.r.t. the singleton comment. We can already
translate MMIO->MMIO addresses per-instance (in the presence of a ranges
property).

The big change would be to handle !MMIO translations, for which we'd
need a runtime registry of ISA bus instance to find the relevant
accessor ops and instance-specific data.

Thanks,
Mark.