Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: marvell: armada-37xx: Remap IO space to bus address 0x0

[Marek Behún]

On Wed, 2 Mar 2022 14:06:01 +0100
Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 10:25:39AM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > On Monday 28 February 2022 17:42:03 Gregory CLEMENT wrote:  
> > > > Hello Pali,
> > > >  
> > > >> Remap PCI I/O space to the bus address 0x0 in the Armada 37xx
> > > >> device-tree in order to support legacy I/O port based cards which have
> > > >> hardcoded I/O ports in low address space.
> > > >>
> > > >> Some legacy PCI I/O based cards do not support 32-bit I/O addressing.
> > > >>
> > > >> Since commit 64f160e19e92 ("PCI: aardvark: Configure PCIe resources from
> > > >> 'ranges' DT property") this driver can work with I/O windows which
> > > >> have  
> > > >
> > > > Should we add a "Fixes: 64f160e19e92 ("PCI: aardvark: Configure PCIe
> > > > resources from 'ranges' DT property")" tag ?  
> > > 
> > > Waiting for your confirmation I tried to applied it but it failed.
> > > 
> > > Did you base this patch on v5.17-rc1 ?
> > > 
> > > Gregory  
> > 
> > Hello! This change is breaking booting of Turris Mox kernel with older
> > bootloader due to bugs in bootloader.  
> 
> Do you know what actually goes wrong?
> 
> I've not been involved in the discussion, but looking at the comments
> above, not changing the space can result in non-working cards. So it
> does sound like something which in general we want to do. Does the
> current code assume the bootloader has initialized some registers with
> specific values? Can that be moved into the driver so it also works
> with older bootloaders?

No. TF-A may remap CPU PCIe window, and so U-Boot fixes these addresses
in device-tree. But the fixup function was at first written in such a
way that it assumes that the ranges propreties contains specific
values. The proposed DT change, together with the fixup function in
older U-Boot, will break ranges property to non-functional state.

See corresponding U-Boot patches

https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/patch/20200408172522.18941-5-marek.behun@xxxxxx/
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/patch/20210526155940.26141-5-pali@xxxxxxxxxx/
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/patch/20220223125232.7974-1-kabel@xxxxxxxxxx/

The last patch is not merged yet.

Marek