Re: [PATCH 2/2] PCI: mediatek: Add controller support for MT7629

[Lorenzo Pieralisi]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 08:32:47AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 04:19:39PM +0800, Jianjun Wang wrote:
> > On Thu, 2018-12-13 at 08:55 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 09:09:13AM +0800, Jianjun Wang wrote:
> > > > The read value of BAR0 is 0xffff_ffff, it's size will be calculated as 4GB
> > > > in arm64 but bogus alignment values at arm32, the pcie device and devices
> > > > behind this bridge will not be enabled. Fix it's BAR0 resource size to
> > > > guarantee the pcie devices will be enabled correctly.
> > > 
> > > So this is a hardware erratum?  Per spec, a memory BAR has bit 0 hardwired
> > > to 0, and an IO BAR has bit 1 hardwired to 0.
> > 
> > Yes, it only works properly on 64bit platform.
> 
> I don't understand.  BARs are supposed to work the same regardless of
> whether it's a 32- or 64-bit platform.  If this is a workaround for a
> hardware defect, please just say that explicitly.

I do not understand this either. First thing to do is to describe the
problem properly so that we can actually find a solution to it.

Lorenzo