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[RFC,v2,2/3] PCI: hisi: Make the HiSilicon PCIe host controller ECAM compliant

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Gabriele Paoloni Feb. 8, 2016, 3:55 p.m. UTC 
> -----Original Message-----

> From: Arnd Bergmann [mailto:arnd@arndb.de]

> Sent: 08 February 2016 13:48

> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org

> Cc: Gabriele Paoloni; Guohanjun (Hanjun Guo); Wangzhou (B); liudongdong

> (C); Linuxarm; qiujiang; bhelgaas@google.com;

> Lorenzo.Pieralisi@arm.com; tn@semihalf.com; linux-pci@vger.kernel.org;

> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; xuwei (O); linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org;

> jcm@redhat.com; zhangjukuo; Liguozhu (Kenneth)

> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/3] PCI: hisi: Make the HiSilicon PCIe host

> controller ECAM compliant

> 

> On Monday 08 February 2016 12:41:03 Gabriele Paoloni wrote:

> > From: gabriele paoloni <gabriele.paoloni@huawei.com>

> >

> > This patch modifies the current Hip05/Hip06 PCIe host controller

> > driver to make it ECAM compliant. This is needed in preparation

> > for the ACPI based driver to allow both DT and ACPI drivers to

> > use the same BIOS (that configure the Designware iATUs).

> >

> > Signed-off-by: Gabriele Paoloni <gabriele.paoloni@huawei.com>

> > Signed-off-by: Dongdong Liu <liudongdong3@huawei.com>

> >

> 

> Doesn't this break backwards compatibility?


Well Hip05/Hip06 SoCs are used into evaluation boards
For the Estuary project.

https://github.com/hisilicon/estuary

As this new driver gets upstream we'll merge this new driver into estuary
and release a new version of the firmware to support it.

> 

> I think you need to use a new compatible string in the firmware

> if you change the register layout, and then change the driver

> to support both the old and the new layout.


You are right, for some reason in this patchset I missed the Documentation
update that I posted in the previous one, i.e.:

Thanks

Gab 


> 

> 	Arnd

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Patch

--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/hisilicon-pcie.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/hisilicon-pcie.txt
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@  Optional properties:
 Hip05 Example (note that Hip06 is the same except compatible):
 	pcie@0xb0080000 {
 		compatible = "hisilicon,hip05-pcie", "snps,dw-pcie";
-		reg = <0 0xb0080000 0 0x10000>, <0x220 0x00000000 0 0x2000>;
-		reg-names = "rc_dbi", "config";
+		reg = <0 0xb0080000 0 0x10000>, <0x220 0x00100000 0 0x0f00000>;
+		reg-names = "rc_dbi", "ecam-cfg";

I will fix this in v3