On Friday 07 June 2013, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> Sounds fair to me.
>
> But when we talk about multiple domains we don't mean a disjoint range
> bus bus numbers, as your other email shows:
>
> 00:00.0 PCI bridge: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device a549 (rev 01) (prog-if
> 00 [Normal decode])
> 10:00.0 PCI bridge: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device a549 (rev 01) (prog-if
> 00 [Normal decode])
>
> We mean multiple domains, it should look like this:
>
> 0000:00:00.0 PCI bridge: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device a549 (rev 01)
> (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
> 0001:00:00.0 PCI bridge: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device a549 (rev 01)
> (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
>
> ie lspci -D.
>
> Each domain gets a unique bus number range, config space, io range,
> etc. This is much clearer to everyone than trying to pretend there is
> only one domain when the HW is actually multi-domain.
Yes, absolutely. This means we also don't need a bus-range property in DT,
since each
domain will allow all 255 buses.
Arnd
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