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Re: [PATCH] PCI: rockchip: Support quirk to disable 5 GT/s (PCIe 2.x) link rate

From Shawn Lin <shawn.lin@rock-chips.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] PCI: rockchip: Support quirk to disable 5 GT/s (PCIe 2.x) link rate
Date 2016-09-23 03:40 +0200
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Hi Brain,

在 2016/9/23 9:15, Brian Norris 写道:
> Hi Shawn,
>
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 08:27:35AM +0800, Shawn Lin wrote:
>> 在 2016/9/23 1:31, Brian Norris 写道:
>>> rk3399 supports PCIe 2.x link speeds marginally at best, and on some
>>> boards, the link won't train at 5 GT/s at all. Rather than sacrifice 500
>>> ms waiting for training that will never happen, let's support a device
>>> tree quirk flag to disable generation 2 speeds entirely.
>>
>> I was thinking about could we get target link speed [TLS] from the
>> end-point when finishing Gen1 training, but it seems that the location
>> of ep's TLS is not fixed.
>
> Indeed it's not, but we could probably handle that if absolutely needed
> (get a reference to the root port pci_dev somehow, then use the existing
> helpers to walk children and get the computed ->pcie_cap offset). But

Right, we could probably walk through the ep's cap and get this, but
sure, it's not the problem here, and that is maybe what I want to dig
more later.

Thanks for sharing this.

> that's not the problem here; we have 5 GT/s devices, but they are not
> running at 5 GT/s because link training can't pass. We have been told
> there are still SI issues, and so you wouldn't really be able to turn
> this out at runtime anyway.
>
> But sure, I suppose that'd be a way to (for chips/boards that don't have
> SI issues) determine whether or not to attempt gen2 training at all.
> That does sound better than just timing out after 500ms...
>
>> Anyway, your patch looks sane to me as we leave gen2 as default and
>> people could drop that feature by adding rockchip,disable-gen2 to
>> their dts if they are sure the board would never supoort Gen2 devices.
>>
>> Acked-by: Shawn Lin <shawn.lin@rock-chips.com>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Brian
>
>
>


-- 
Best Regards
Shawn Lin

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[PATCH] PCI: rockchip: Support quirk to disable 5 GT/s (PCIe 2.x) link rate Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> - 2016-09-22 19:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] PCI: rockchip: Support quirk to disable 5 GT/s (PCIe 2.x)  link rate Shawn Lin <shawn.lin@rock-chips.com> - 2016-09-23 02:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] PCI: rockchip: Support quirk to disable 5 GT/s (PCIe  2.x) link rate Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> - 2016-09-23 03:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] PCI: rockchip: Support quirk to disable 5 GT/s (PCIe 2.x)  link rate Shawn Lin <shawn.lin@rock-chips.com> - 2016-09-23 03:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] PCI: rockchip: Support quirk to disable 5 GT/s (PCIe  2.x) link rate Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-09-23 23:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] PCI: rockchip: Support quirk to disable 5 GT/s (PCIe  2.x) link rate Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org> - 2016-09-24 02:00 +0200

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