Re: [PATCH v6 10/13] PCI: brcmstb: Refactor for chips with many regular inbound windows

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Mon Sep 02 2024 - 16:45:42 EST


On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 06:57:23PM -0400, Jim Quinlan wrote:
> Provide support for new chips with multiple inbound windows while
> keeping the legacy support for the older chips.
>
> In existing chips there are three inbound windows with fixed purposes: the
> first was for mapping SoC internal registers, the second was for memory,
> and the third was for memory but with the endian swapped. Typically, only
> one window was used.
>
> Complicating the inbound window usage was the fact that the PCIe HW would
> do a baroque internal mapping of system memory, and concatenate the regions
> of multiple memory controllers.
>
> Newer chips such as the 7712 and Cable Modem SOCs take a step forward and
> drop the internal mapping while providing for multiple inbound windows.
> This works in concert with the dma-ranges property, where each provided
> range becomes an inbound window.

Krzysztof, can you touch this up on your branch to s/SOCs/SoCs/ to
match other usage above, and ...

> + * The HW registers (and PCIe) use order-1 numbering for BARs. As
> + * such, we have inbound_wins[0] unused and BAR1 starts at inbound_wins[1].

Rewrap this to fit in 80 columns like (most of) the rest of the file
instead of 83? I don't think we gain anything by being wider here.