Re: [RFC PATCH] PCI/portdrv: Support for subtractive decode bridge

[Bjorn Helgaas]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 09:18:16AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 11:40:29AM +0800, honghui.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Honghui Zhang <honghui.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > The Class Code for subtractive decode PCI-to-PCI bridge is 060401h,
> > change the class_mask values to make portdrv support this type bridge.
> 
> I assume you have a Root Port or Switch Port that supports subtractive
> decode?  I'm trying to understand how such a device would work.
> 
> Out of curiosity, can you show the "lspci -vv" output for the device
> and the downstream devices of interest?

Actually, since subtractive decode has to do with how the bridge
interacts with its *peers*, what would be interesting is the host
bridge window information from ACPI _CRS or DT and the lspci info for
everything under that host bridge.

Assuming we're talking about a Root Port, I guess that would mean
anything inside the host bridge windows but outside the positive
decode windows (the normal PCI-PCI bridge apertures in the Root Ports)
would be claimed by the subtractive decode Root Port?

I guess you would want this because this path ultimately leads to an
ISA or similar bus where you don't know what resources the device
actually consumes?

Bjorn