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RE: [PATCH V2 22/23] pci, acpi: Match PCI config space accessors against platfrom specific quirks.

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Hi Jon, thanks for replying

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Masters [mailto:jcm@redhat.com]
> Sent: 21 December 2015 23:11
> To: Arnd Bergmann
> Cc: Gabriele Paoloni; Tomasz Nowicki; bhelgaas@google.com;
> will.deacon@arm.com; catalin.marinas@arm.com; rjw@rjwysocki.net;
> hanjun.guo@linaro.org; Lorenzo.Pieralisi@arm.com; okaya@codeaurora.org;
> jiang.liu@linux.intel.com; Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com;
> robert.richter@caviumnetworks.com; mw@semihalf.com; Liviu.Dudau@arm.com;
> ddaney@caviumnetworks.com; tglx@linutronix.de; Wangyijing;
> Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com; msalter@redhat.com; linux-
> pci@vger.kernel.org; linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org; linux-
> acpi@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; linaro-
> acpi@lists.linaro.org; jchandra@broadcom.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 22/23] pci, acpi: Match PCI config space
> accessors against platfrom specific quirks.
> 
> Sorry for top-posting. A quick note that SMBIOS3 is required by SBBR so
> it can be presumed that compliant platforms will provide quirks via DMI.

Ok so you completely clarified my question 1). Many Thanks for this

Gab

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> > On Dec 21, 2015, at 09:11, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Monday 21 December 2015, Gabriele Paoloni wrote:
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-kernel-
> >>> owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Tomasz Nowicki
> >
> >>> Some platforms may not be fully compliant with generic set of PCI
> >>> config accessors. For these cases we implement the way to overwrite
> >>> accessors set before PCI buses enumeration. Algorithm that
> overwrite
> >>> accessors matches against platform ID (DMI), domain and bus number,
> >>> hopefully enough for all cases. All quirks can be defined using:
> >>> DECLARE_ACPI_MCFG_FIXUP() and keep self contained.
> >>
> >> I've got a couple of comments/questions about this patch..
> >>
> >> 1) So according to this mechanism quirks would be supported only by
> >>   vendors whose BIOS are SMBIOS compliant. Now personally I am ok
> >>   with this but I don't know if this is OK in general as it would
> >>   narrow down the number of platforms that would be able to define
> >>   the quirks...
> >>   Lorenzo, Arnd what is your opinion here?
> >
> > I'd rather not see the quirks in mainline at all, and only support
> > SBSA compliant machines, or require the BIOS to work around the
> > hardware quirks differently (e.g. by trapping config space access
> > through secure firmware, or going through an AML method to be
> > defined). I'm certainly ok with making it depend on SMBIOS if we are
> going to use something like this.
> >
> >    Arnd
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  [PATCH V2 12/23] pci, acpi: Move ACPI host bridge device companion assignment to core code. Tomasz Nowicki <tn@semihalf.com> - 2015-12-16 16:20 +0100
  [PATCH V2 20/23] ACPI, PCI: Refine the way to handle translation_offset for ACPI resources Tomasz Nowicki <tn@semihalf.com> - 2015-12-16 16:20 +0100
  [PATCH V2 01/23] x86, pci: Reorder logic of pci_mmconfig_insert() function Tomasz Nowicki <tn@semihalf.com> - 2015-12-16 16:20 +0100
  [PATCH V2 21/23] pci, acpi: Support for ACPI based PCI hostbridge init Tomasz Nowicki <tn@semihalf.com> - 2015-12-16 16:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH V2 21/23] pci, acpi: Support for ACPI based PCI hostbridge init Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-12-18 13:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH V2 21/23] pci, acpi: Support for ACPI based PCI hostbridge  init Tomasz Nowicki <tn@semihalf.com> - 2015-12-21 11:30 +0100
  [PATCH V2 19/23] acpi, mcfg: Add default PCI config accessors implementation and initial support for related quirks. Tomasz Nowicki <tn@semihalf.com> - 2015-12-16 16:20 +0100
  [PATCH V2 22/23] pci, acpi: Match PCI config space accessors against platfrom specific quirks. Tomasz Nowicki <tn@semihalf.com> - 2015-12-16 16:20 +0100
    RE: [PATCH V2 22/23] pci, acpi: Match PCI config space accessors  against platfrom specific quirks. Gabriele Paoloni <gabriele.paoloni@huawei.com> - 2015-12-21 12:50 +0100
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        Re: [PATCH V2 22/23] pci, acpi: Match PCI config space accessors against platfrom specific quirks. Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-12-21 23:50 +0100
          Re: [PATCH V2 22/23] pci, acpi: Match PCI config space accessors  against platfrom specific quirks. Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> - 2015-12-22 00:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH V2 22/23] pci, acpi: Match PCI config space accessors against platfrom specific quirks. Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> - 2015-12-22 00:20 +0100
          Re: [PATCH V2 22/23] pci, acpi: Match PCI config space accessors  against platfrom specific quirks. Tomasz Nowicki <tn@semihalf.com> - 2015-12-22 09:50 +0100
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            Re: [PATCH V2 22/23] pci, acpi: Match PCI config space accessors  against platfrom specific quirks. Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> - 2015-12-22 17:40 +0100
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  Re: [PATCH V2 00/23] MMCONFIG refactoring and support for ARM64 PCI  hostbridge init based on ACPI Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org> - 2015-12-17 22:30 +0100
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