Hi,
I have a question about enumeration and the distinction between the Host/PCI bridge and a P2P bridge in the Root Complex. I'm currently using a P1022DS as a bare board, no OS system for development while waiting on our real hardware. Since we have no OS I am working my way through the enumeration process. I have a simple C program based on the "Hello World" project the wizard creates for a bare board system and am using the debugger to step through and see what is going on by monitoring the config_data register. The .tcl script used by the debugger sets up the PCI1 controller at 0xE000A000. I can actually see the vendor ID information from the root complex down to an ethernet card I installed for testing purposes. Refer to the figure below.
I understand that in the enumeration process you poll Bus 0, Device 0, Function 0 and verify a valid Vendor ID and in my case that the device is a bridge. I'm presuming this is returning the device ID for the P2P bridge shown as device 0 in the figure. You then update the Primary bus = 0, Secondary bus = 1, and the Subordinate bus = 1 in the configuration space for BDF 0,0,0. (I realize the subordinate bus can be updated at the end which is why the figure shows the subordinate bus as = 4.) In some explanations of the process that I've read, it says that you also need to update the subordinate bus number on the Host/PCI bridge (shown as = 10 in the figure). How does one do this? It seems to me that using the configuration address/data registers will just update the P2P bridge and not the Host/PCI bridge. Any explanation would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Dan
