[U-Boot] [PATCH] pci: Support parsing PCI controller DT subnodes

[Simon Glass]

Hi Marek,

On 30 August 2018 at 03:25, Marek Vasut <marek.vasut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 08/30/2018 02:29 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
> > Hi Marek,
>
> Hi,
>
> [...]
>
> >>> If you have both EHCI and a xHCI controller which can occupy the same
> >>> BFD, then how would you supply in the DT options needed by the
> >>> controller itself? Don't you need two nodes in that case?
> >>
> >> For the PHY case, it's controller-type-independent.
> >
> > What do you mean? Your example of why you can't use compatible strings
> > says you might have two different PHYs. But I think you should answer
> > my questions:
> >
> >>> If you have both EHCI and a xHCI controller which can occupy the same
> >>> BFD, then how would you supply in the DT options needed by the
> >>> controller itself? Don't you need two nodes in that case?
>
> You need only one node (if the PHY works with both controller options),
> which contains "reg" and "phy" properties. The driver matching is done
> on the PCI ID/class and the node is associated with the driver based on
> the "reg" property.

I think you need two nodes if there are DT options that are different
for each PHY. In fact I think this is impossible to do with the reg
scheme.

In effect the PHYs are different. They have different drivers,
assuming drivers are needed. So I feel that using a common address to
match two different devices is actually just weird.

- Simon

>
> > [...]
> >
> >>> In any case, re Bin's list of things that need doing, I worry about
> >>> having different code for sandbox than other archs. It invalidates our
> >>> sandbox testing. Granted, we have to support the PCI emulators, but
> >>> that's OK since that code is not used except in sandbox. We still want
> >>> to support compatible strings in the DT for PCI devices, right?
> >>
> >> We do, since there seems to be usecase for those too.
> >
> > OK, well let's make sure we have some compatible notes too in sandbox,
> > so we retain testing.
>
> I'm not changing anything in sandbox, so the original case is covered as is.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Marek Vasut