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+EISA bus support (Marc Zyngier <maz@wild-wind.fr.eu.org>)
+
+This document groups random notes about porting EISA drivers to the
+new EISA/sysfs API.
+
+Starting from version 2.5.59, the EISA bus is almost given the same
+status as other much more mainstream busses such as PCI or USB. This
+has been possible through sysfs, which defines a nice enough set of
+abstractions to manage busses, devices and drivers.
+
+Although the new API is quite simple to use, converting existing
+drivers to the new infrastructure is not an easy task (mostly because
+detection code is generally also used to probe ISA cards). Moreover,
+most EISA drivers are among the oldest Linux drivers so, as you can
+imagine, some dust has settled here over the years.
+
+The EISA infrastructure is made up of three parts :
+
+    - The bus code implements most of the generic code. It is shared
+    among all the architectures that the EISA code runs on. It
+    implements bus probing (detecting EISA cards avaible on the bus),
+    allocates I/O resources, allows fancy naming through sysfs, and
+    offers interfaces for driver to register.
+
+    - The bus root driver implements the glue between the bus hardware
+    and the generic bus code. It is responsible for discovering the
+    device implementing the bus, and setting it up to be latter probed
+    by the bus code. This can go from something as simple as reserving
+    an I/O region on x86, to the rather more complex, like the hppa
+    EISA code. This is the part to implement in order to have EISA
+    running on an "new" platform.
+
+    - The driver offers the bus a list of devices that it manages, and
+    implements the necessary callbacks to probe and release devices
+    whenever told to.
+
+Every function/structure below lives in <linux/eisa.h>, which depends
+heavily on <linux/device.h>.
+
+** Bus root driver :
+
+int eisa_root_register (struct eisa_root_device *root);
+
+The eisa_root_register function is used to declare a device as the
+root of an EISA bus. The eisa_root_device structure holds a reference
+to this device, as well as some parameters for probing purposes.
+
+struct eisa_root_device {
+        struct device   *dev;    /* Pointer to bridge device */
+        struct resource *res;
+        unsigned long    bus_base_addr;
+        int              slots;  /* Max slot number */
+        int              force_probe; /* Probe even when no slot 0 */
+        u64              dma_mask; /* from bridge device */
+        int              bus_nr; /* Set by eisa_root_register */
+        struct resource  eisa_root_res; /* ditto */
+};
+
+node          : used for eisa_root_register internal purpose
+dev           : pointer to the root device
+res           : root device I/O resource
+bus_base_addr : slot 0 address on this bus
+slots         : max slot number to probe
+force_probe   : Probe even when slot 0 is empty (no EISA mainboard)
+dma_mask      : Default DMA mask. Usualy the bridge device dma_mask.
+bus_nr        : unique bus id, set by eisa_root_register
+
+** Driver :
+
+int eisa_driver_register (struct eisa_driver *edrv);
+void eisa_driver_unregister (struct eisa_driver *edrv);
+
+Clear enough ?
+
+struct eisa_device_id {
+        char sig[EISA_SIG_LEN];
+        unsigned long driver_data;
+};
+
+struct eisa_driver {
+        const struct eisa_device_id *id_table;
+        struct device_driver         driver;
+};
+
+id_table        : an array of NULL terminated EISA id strings,
+                  followed by an empty string. Each string can
+                  optionnaly be paired with a driver-dependant value
+                  (driver_data).
+
+driver          : a generic driver, such as described in
+                  Documentation/driver-model/driver.txt. Only .name,
+                  .probe and .remove members are mandatory.
+
+An example is the 3c59x driver :
+
+static struct eisa_device_id vortex_eisa_ids[] = {
+        { "TCM5920", EISA_3C592_OFFSET },
+        { "TCM5970", EISA_3C597_OFFSET },
+        { "" }
+};
+
+static struct eisa_driver vortex_eisa_driver = {
+        .id_table = vortex_eisa_ids,
+        .driver   = {
+                .name    = "3c59x",
+                .probe   = vortex_eisa_probe,
+                .remove  = vortex_eisa_remove
+        }
+};
+
+** Device :
+
+The sysfs framework calls .probe and .remove functions upon device
+discovery and removal (note that the .remove function is only called
+when driver is built as a module).
+
+Both functions are passed a pointer to a 'struct device', which is
+encapsulated in a 'struct eisa_device' described as follows :
+
+struct eisa_device {
+        struct eisa_device_id id;
+        int                   slot;
+        int                   state;
+        unsigned long         base_addr;
+        struct resource       res[EISA_MAX_RESOURCES];
+        u64                   dma_mask;
+        struct device         dev; /* generic device */
+};
+
+id      : EISA id, as read from device. id.driver_data is set from the
+          matching driver EISA id.
+slot    : slot number which the device was detected on
+state   : set of flags indicating the state of the device. Current
+          flags are EISA_CONFIG_ENABLED and EISA_CONFIG_FORCED.
+res     : set of four 256 bytes I/O regions allocated to this device
+dma_mask: DMA mask set from the parent device.
+dev     : generic device (see Documentation/driver-model/device.txt)
+
+You can get the 'struct eisa_device' from 'struct device' using the
+'to_eisa_device' macro.
+
+** Misc stuff :
+
+void eisa_set_drvdata (struct eisa_device *edev, void *data);
+
+Stores data into the device's driver_data area.
+
+void *eisa_get_drvdata (struct eisa_device *edev):
+
+Gets the pointer previously stored into the device's driver_data area.
+
+int eisa_get_region_index (void *addr);
+
+Returns the region number (0 <= x < EISA_MAX_RESOURCES) of a given
+address.
+
+** Kernel parameters :
+
+eisa_bus.enable_dev :
+
+A comma-separated list of slots to be enabled, even if the firmware
+set the card as disabled. The driver must be able to properly
+initialize the device in such conditions.
+
+eisa_bus.disable_dev :
+
+A comma-separated list of slots to be enabled, even if the firmware
+set the card as enabled. The driver won't be called to handle this
+device.
+
+virtual_root.force_probe :
+
+Force the probing code to probe EISA slots even when it cannot find an
+EISA compliant mainboard (nothing appears on slot 0). Defaultd to 0
+(don't force), and set to 1 (force probing) when either
+CONFIG_ALPHA_JENSEN or CONFIG_EISA_VLB_PRIMING are set.
+
+** Random notes :
+
+Converting an EISA driver to the new API mostly involves *deleting*
+code (since probing is now in the core EISA code). Unfortunately, most
+drivers share their probing routine between ISA, MCA and EISA. Special
+care must be taken when ripping out the EISA code, so other busses
+won't suffer from these surgical strikes...
+
+You *must not* expect any EISA device to be detected when returning
+from eisa_driver_register, since the chances are that the bus has not
+yet been probed. In fact, that's what happens most of the time (the
+bus root driver usually kicks in rather late in the boot process).
+Unfortunately, most drivers are doing the probing by themselves, and
+expect to have explored the whole machine when they exit their probe
+routine.
+
+For example, switching your favorite EISA SCSI card to the "hotplug"
+model is "the right thing"(tm).
+
+** Thanks :
+
+I'd like to thank the following people for their help :
+- Xavier Benigni for lending me a wonderful Alpha Jensen,
+- James Bottomley, Jeff Garzik for getting this stuff into the kernel,
+- Andries Brouwer for contributing numerous EISA ids,
+- Catrin Jones for coping with far too many machines at home.