On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 08:53:52AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Yes, but I think how you program your host to pci bridge is platform > > specific, > > the standard (mostly) applies to what happens below the bridge. There's > > no real standard for how PCI host bridge is connected to processor > > AFAIK, it's by luck we can share code there at all. > > Well, yes and no ... there's a standard on how a PCI host bridge is > connected in the sense that how normal MMIO accesses go through in term > of endianness is well defined. >
Go through where? From processor to PCI? Which spec do you refer to? > How you actually issue config space cycles is a property of a given > bridge. How you issue IO cycles as well in fact. > > Cheers, > Ben.