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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 06f1d64c6f70..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,131 +0,0 @@ -Accessing PCI device resources through sysfs --------------------------------------------- - -sysfs, usually mounted at /sys, provides access to PCI resources on platforms -that support it. For example, a given bus might look like this: - - /sys/devices/pci0000:17 - |-- 0000:17:00.0 - | |-- class - | |-- config - | |-- device - | |-- enable - | |-- irq - | |-- local_cpus - | |-- remove - | |-- resource - | |-- resource0 - | |-- resource1 - | |-- resource2 - | |-- revision - | |-- rom - | |-- subsystem_device - | |-- subsystem_vendor - | `-- vendor - `-- ... - -The topmost element describes the PCI domain and bus number. In this case, -the domain number is 0000 and the bus number is 17 (both values are in hex). -This bus contains a single function device in slot 0. The domain and bus -numbers are reproduced for convenience. Under the device directory are several -files, each with their own function. - - file function - ---- -------- - class PCI class (ascii, ro) - config PCI config space (binary, rw) - device PCI device (ascii, ro) - enable Whether the device is enabled (ascii, rw) - irq IRQ number (ascii, ro) - local_cpus nearby CPU mask (cpumask, ro) - remove remove device from kernel's list (ascii, wo) - resource PCI resource host addresses (ascii, ro) - resource0..N PCI resource N, if present (binary, mmap, rw[1]) - resource0_wc..N_wc PCI WC map resource N, if prefetchable (binary, mmap) - revision PCI revision (ascii, ro) - rom PCI ROM resource, if present (binary, ro) - subsystem_device PCI subsystem device (ascii, ro) - subsystem_vendor PCI subsystem vendor (ascii, ro) - vendor PCI vendor (ascii, ro) - - ro - read only file - rw - file is readable and writable - wo - write only file - mmap - file is mmapable - ascii - file contains ascii text - binary - file contains binary data - cpumask - file contains a cpumask type - -[1] rw for RESOURCE_IO (I/O port) regions only - -The read only files are informational, writes to them will be ignored, with -the exception of the 'rom' file. Writable files can be used to perform -actions on the device (e.g. changing config space, detaching a device). -mmapable files are available via an mmap of the file at offset 0 and can be -used to do actual device programming from userspace. Note that some platforms -don't support mmapping of certain resources, so be sure to check the return -value from any attempted mmap. The most notable of these are I/O port -resources, which also provide read/write access. - -The 'enable' file provides a counter that indicates how many times the device -has been enabled. If the 'enable' file currently returns '4', and a '1' is -echoed into it, it will then return '5'. Echoing a '0' into it will decrease -the count. Even when it returns to 0, though, some of the initialisation -may not be reversed. - -The 'rom' file is special in that it provides read-only access to the device's -ROM file, if available. It's disabled by default, however, so applications -should write the string "1" to the file to enable it before attempting a read -call, and disable it following the access by writing "0" to the file. Note -that the device must be enabled for a rom read to return data successfully. -In the event a driver is not bound to the device, it can be enabled using the -'enable' file, documented above. - -The 'remove' file is used to remove the PCI device, by writing a non-zero -integer to the file. This does not involve any kind of hot-plug functionality, -e.g. powering off the device. The device is removed from the kernel's list of -PCI devices, the sysfs directory for it is removed, and the device will be -removed from any drivers attached to it. Removal of PCI root buses is -disallowed. - -Accessing legacy resources through sysfs ----------------------------------------- - -Legacy I/O port and ISA memory resources are also provided in sysfs if the -underlying platform supports them. They're located in the PCI class hierarchy, -e.g. - - /sys/class/pci_bus/0000:17/ - |-- bridge -> ../../../devices/pci0000:17 - |-- cpuaffinity - |-- legacy_io - `-- legacy_mem - -The legacy_io file is a read/write file that can be used by applications to -do legacy port I/O. The application should open the file, seek to the desired -port (e.g. 0x3e8) and do a read or a write of 1, 2 or 4 bytes. The legacy_mem -file should be mmapped with an offset corresponding to the memory offset -desired, e.g. 0xa0000 for the VGA frame buffer. The application can then -simply dereference the returned pointer (after checking for errors of course) -to access legacy memory space. - -Supporting PCI access on new platforms --------------------------------------- - -In order to support PCI resource mapping as described above, Linux platform -code should ideally define ARCH_GENERIC_PCI_MMAP_RESOURCE and use the generic -implementation of that functionality. To support the historical interface of -mmap() through files in /proc/bus/pci, platforms may also set HAVE_PCI_MMAP. - -Alternatively, platforms which set HAVE_PCI_MMAP may provide their own -implementation of pci_mmap_page_range() instead of defining -ARCH_GENERIC_PCI_MMAP_RESOURCE. - -Platforms which support write-combining maps of PCI resources must define -arch_can_pci_mmap_wc() which shall evaluate to non-zero at runtime when -write-combining is permitted. Platforms which support maps of I/O resources -define arch_can_pci_mmap_io() similarly. - -Legacy resources are protected by the HAVE_PCI_LEGACY define. Platforms -wishing to support legacy functionality should define it and provide -pci_legacy_read, pci_legacy_write and pci_mmap_legacy_page_range functions. |