Re: PCI Endpoint - Missing inbound mapping ops ?

[Ramon Fried]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 2:04 PM Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tuesday 14 August 2018 06:25 PM, Ramon Fried wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 1:53 PM Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On Tuesday 14 August 2018 06:19 PM, Ramon Fried wrote:
> >>> Hi.
> >>> I recently saw that the PCI endpoint API only supports outbound memory
> >>> mapping: (AXI -> PCI) through the map_addr op.
> >>> Why inbound mapping is missing (PCI->AXI) is missing ?
> >>> In almost all of the PCI EP controllers I've worked with there was a
> >>> need to map complete BARS or part of BARS to mmio/aperature regions on
> >>> the device.
> >>
> >> pci_epc_set_bar() is used for mapping BAR.
> > Thanks Kishon.
> > what about address mapping ? Synopsys has this functionality if I
> > recall correctly.
>
> The addresses that the RC will put in BAR's is not known while we initialize
> the endpoint. So we really can't map BAR's PCI address to an inbound address
> while EP initialization.
>
> I think some older version of Synopsys had this (and didn't have BAR mapping).
> Actually TI's K2G had this IP. However the ATU registers here are mapped to
> BAR0. So the host side PCI driver can program the PCI address (that the RC has
> allocated for BARs) in ATU.
Yes. you're right.
Thanks for the clarification.
>
> Thanks
> Kishon