Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] asm-generic: Add new pci.h and use it

From: Maciej W. Rozycki
Date: Fri Jul 22 2022 - 18:28:13 EST


On Fri, 22 Jul 2022, Rob Herring wrote:

> > > So again, how does one get a 0 address handed out when that's not even
> > > a valid region according to DT? Is there some legacy stuff that
> > > ignores the bridge windows?
> >
> > It doesn't matter as <asm/pci.h> just sets it as a generic parameter for
> > the platform, reflecting the limitation of PCI core, which in the course
> > of the discussion referred was found rather infeasible to remove. The
> > FU740 does not decode to PCI at 0, but another RISC-V device could. And I
> > think that DT should faithfully describe hardware and not our software
> > limitations.
>
> Let me ask this another way. When would a 0 memory or i/o address ever
> work? It doesn't seem this s/w limitation has anything specific to
> Risc-V. Given pci_iomap_range() rejects 0, I can't see how it could
> ever work. Maybe only for legacy ISA? So should the generic defaults
> just be what Risc-V is using instead of 0?

Absolutely, cf.:
<https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/alpine.DEB.2.21.2202260044180.25061@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/>.

Maciej