RE: [PATCH v6 02/11] arm64: defconfig: enable CONFIG_PCIE_RCAR_HOST

From: Yoshihiro Shimoda
Date: Fri Apr 03 2020 - 05:45:06 EST


Hi Prabhakar-san,

> From: Prabhakar Mahadev Lad, Sent: Friday, April 3, 2020 6:32 PM
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> > > BTW, I'm wondering about "[PATCH v6 05/11] PCI: rcar: Fix calculating
> > > mask for PCIEPAMR register". Can the issue fixed by this patch happen with
> > > the current driver in host mode, or is that limited to ep mode?
> > > In case of the former, please submit it to the PCI maintainer as a separate
> > > fix.
> >
> > Thank you for pointed it out. I think this is the case of the former.
> > IIUC, if such a small window PCIe device exists, the issue happens.
> >
> > Prabhakar-san, is my understanding correct?
> >
> This issue will only be hit on EP, when in host mode the sizes will be fixed to 1 Mbytes /2 Mbytes /128 Mbytes

Thank you for your comment. Now I understood this is related to "PCIEn memory m" in the document
and related to ranges property in the device node. So, I'd like to recall my previous comment and
I agree the patch 06/11 is required on EP mode only.

Best regards,
Yoshihiro Shimoda