[U-Boot] [PATCH 074/126] pci: Add support for p2sb uclass

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Sat Oct 12 03:37:49 UTC 2019


Hi Bin,

On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 at 22:57, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Simon,
>
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 10:59 PM Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > The Primary-to-Sideband bus (P2SB) is used to access various peripherals
> > through memory-mapped I/O in a large chunk of PCI space. The space is
> > segmented into different channels and peripherals are accessed by
> > device-specific means within those channels. Devices should be added in
> > the device tree as subnodes of the p2sb.
> >
>
> Again, I see no value of bringing P2SB to the uclass driver level,
> given as of today it is only seen in ApolloLake. Similar mechanism was
> seen in old x86 SoCs, and at the old time, it was called "Message
> Port", that existed in old Atom SoCs.

OK, I'll make it a SYSCON I suppose.

Regards,
Simon


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