>Well, ACPI calls them "segments" but a previous discussion (c.f. "RFC:
>Changes for PCI" from a year ago) called them domains.
>
>I don't care what they're called, but I wanted to bring them up and see what
>everyone thought about how best to implement them, or at least if anyone had
>an objection to adding a "segment" parameter to pci_scan_root.
>
>I certainly don't have a machine that uses these but some people do, and it
>sounds like it would be nice to handle them in an arch-neutral way.
>
alpha and sparc64 at least already do them.
I wouldn't mind making the PCI domain support a bit more explicit,
though. I think it's fair to be able to obtain a pointer to "struct
pci_domain", which would most likely be defined in asm/pci.h for each arch.
Jeff
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