Re: FW: [PATCH 2/2] dt-bindings: pcie: Add documentation for Mediatek PCIe

From: Ryder Lee
Date: Tue May 02 2017 - 03:09:49 EST



Hi Arnd,

> 2017-04-28 19:41 GMT+08:00 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>:
>
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 4:46 AM, Ryder Lee
> <ryder.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2017-04-27 at 21:06 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >> On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 10:10 AM, Ryder Lee
> <ryder.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, 2017-04-25 at 14:18 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >> >> On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Ryder Lee
> <ryder.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Are any of the registers the same at all, e.g. for MSI
> handling?
> >
> > No, It doesn't support MSI. All I can do is using the
> registers that designer provide to me. The others are inviable
> for software. So I treat it as different hardware.
> Furthermore, we hope that we can put all mediatek drivers
> together regardless of in-house IP or lincense IP
> >
> > We have no particular IP name but just use chip name to call
> it. So I will temporarily use "mediatek,gen2v1-pcie" in patch
> v1.
>
> I think using the chip name as in the first version of your
> patch name is better then, in particular since the 'gen2v1'
> would not be an actual version number but just say which
> variant got merged into mainline first.

Okay, i will correct it.

> A related question would be on how general we want the binding
> to be.
> Your binding text starts out by describing that there are
> three root ports and what their capabilities are.
>
> If you think there might be other (existing or future) chips
> that use the same binding and driver, then being a little more
> abstract could help in the long run.

Thanks for reminding me. If we decide to use the same driver in the
future, we will have a internal discussion about it.

Ryder.