Re: devicetree and IRQ7 mapping for T1042(mpic)

[Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>]

On Thu, 2015-10-15 at 07:11 +0000, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-10-14 at 19:11 -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> > On Wed, 2015-10-14 at 19:37 +0000, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > > I am trying to figure out how to describe/map external IRQ7 in the 
> > > devicetree.
> > > 
> > > Basically either IRQ7 to be left alone by Linux(becase u-boot already 
> > > set 
> > > it up)
> > > or map IRQ7 to sie 0(MPIC_EILR7=0xf0) and prio=0xf(MPIC_EIVPR7=0x4f0000)
> > > 
> > > There is no need for SW handler because IRQ7 will be routed to the DDR 
> > > controller
> > > and case an automatic Self Refresh just before CPU reset.
> > > 
> > > I cannot figure out how to do this. Any ideas?
> > > 
> > > If not possible from devicetree, then can one do it from board code?
> > 
> > The device tree describes the hardware.  Priority is configuration, and 
> > thus 
> > doesn't belong there.  You can call mpic_irq_set_priority() from board 
> > code.
> 
> Right.
> 
> > 
> > Likewise, the fact that you want to route irq7 to sie0 is configuration, 
> > not 
> > hardware description.  At most, the device tree should describe is what 
> > is 
> > connected to each sie output.  There's no current Linux support for 
> > routing 
> > an interrupt to sie or anything other than "int".
> 
> That explains why I could not find any mpic function for that ..
> 
> I found mpic dev. trees property "protected-sources" which might do what I 
> want, just
> leave the the irq alone but I cannot figure out what value to write there.
> Could you give me any example how to calculate dev. tree irq number for 
> IRQ7?
> 
> The mpic.txt mentions "Interrupt Source Configuration Registers" but google 
> did
> not turn up anything useful for me.

The device tree number for external IRQ 7 is 7.  Another option is to use the 
pic-no-reset property.

-Scott