From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
To: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-pci <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL 1/2] asm-generic: rework PCI I/O space access
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2021 14:15:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a3B4FCaPPHhzBdpkv0fsjE0jREwGFCdPeHEDHxxRBEjng@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a74dfb1f-befd-92ce-4c30-233cb08e04d3@huawei.com>
On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 1:23 PM John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> wrote:
> > so I'm just not building those drivers any more, and not
> > defining the inb()/outb() helpers either, causing a build failure when I'm
> > missing an option.
> >
> > However it sounds like you are interested in a third option here, which
> > brings us to:
> >
> > LEGACY_PCI: any PCI driver that uses inb()/outb() or is only available
> > on old-style PCI but not PCIe hardware without a bridge.
> > To be disabled for most architectures and possibly distros but can
> > be enabled for kernels that want to use those devices, as long as
> > CONFIG_HAS_IOPORT is set by the architecture.
> >
> > HAS_IOPORT: not a legacy PCI device, but can only be built on
> > architectures that define inb()/outb(). To be disabled for s390
> > and any other machine that has no useful definition of those
> > functions.
>
> That seems reasonable. And asm-generic io.h should be ifdef'ed by
> HAS_IOPORT. In your patch you had it under CONFIG_IOPORT - was that
> intentional?
No, that was a typo. Thanks for pointing this out.
> On another point, I noticed SCSI driver AHA152x depends on ISA, but is
> not an isa driver - however it does use port IO. Would such dependencies
> need to be changed to depend on HAS_IOPORT?
I'm not sure what you mean here. As far as I can tell, AHA152x is an ISA
driver in the sense that it is a driver for ISA add-on cards. However, it
is not a 'struct isa_driver' in the sense that AHA1542 is, AHA152x is even
older and uses the linux-2.4 style initialization using a module_init()
function that does the probing.
> I did notice that arm32 support CONFIG_ISA - not sure why.
This is for some of the earlier machines we support:
mach-footbridge has some on-board ISA components, while
SA1100, PXA25x and S3C2410 each have at least one machine
with a PC/104 connector using ISA signaling for add-on cards.
There are also a couple of platforms with PCMCIA or CF slots
using the same ISA style I/O signals, but those have separate
drivers.
> > HARDCODED_IOPORT: (or another name you might think of,) Used by
> > drivers that unconditionally do inb()/outb() without checking the
> > validity of the address using firmware or other methods first.
> > depends on HAS_IOPORT and possibly architecture specific
> > settings.
>
> Yeah, that sounds the same as what I was thinking. Maybe IOPORT_NATIVE
> could work as a name. I would think that only x86/ia64 would define it.
> A concern though is that someone could argue that is a functional
> dependency, rather than just a build dependency.
You can have those on a number of platforms, such as early
PowerPC CHRP or pSeries systems, a number of MIPS workstations
including recent Loongson machines, and many Alpha platforms.
Maybe the name should reflect that these all use PC-style ISA/LPC
port numbers without the ISA connectors.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-03 12:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-02 13:47 [GIT PULL 1/2] asm-generic: rework PCI I/O space access Arnd Bergmann
2021-07-02 13:49 ` [GIT PULL 2/2] asm-generic: Unify asm/unaligned.h around struct helper Arnd Bergmann
2021-07-02 20:13 ` pr-tracker-bot
2021-07-02 19:42 ` [GIT PULL 1/2] asm-generic: rework PCI I/O space access Linus Torvalds
2021-07-03 12:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-07-05 10:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-08-03 9:46 ` John Garry
2021-08-03 10:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-08-03 11:23 ` John Garry
2021-08-03 12:15 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2021-08-04 7:55 ` John Garry
2021-08-04 8:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-08-10 9:19 ` John Garry
2021-08-10 11:33 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-09-03 8:31 ` Niklas Schnelle
2021-12-17 13:19 ` Niklas Schnelle
2021-12-17 13:32 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-12-17 13:52 ` Niklas Schnelle
2021-12-17 14:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-12-17 14:27 ` John Garry
2021-12-17 14:32 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-12-17 15:27 ` John Garry
2021-12-17 15:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-12-17 16:30 ` John Garry
2021-12-20 9:27 ` Niklas Schnelle
2021-12-21 16:48 ` John Garry
2021-12-21 16:57 ` Niklas Schnelle
2021-12-19 14:23 ` David Laight
2021-12-21 16:21 ` John Garry
2021-07-05 12:40 ` Niklas Schnelle
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