From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] doc/devicetree: Add Aspeed VIC bindings Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 08:04:40 +1000 Message-ID: <1462831480.20290.120.camel@kernel.crashing.org> References: <1462797239-14765-1-git-send-email-joel@jms.id.au> <1462797239-14765-2-git-send-email-joel@jms.id.au> <20160509152003.GA13842@leverpostej> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20160509152003.GA13842@leverpostej> Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Mark Rutland , Joel Stanley Cc: tglx-hfZtesqFncYOwBW4kG4KsQ@public.gmane.org, jason-NLaQJdtUoK4Be96aLqz0jA@public.gmane.org, marc.zyngier-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org, devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org, jk-mnsaURCQ41sdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2016-05-09 at 16:20 +0100, Mark Rutland wrote: >=C2=A0 > Generally we steer clear of this kind of bitmap encoding in DT. >=20 > Is this actually necessary? What does htis gain us? >=20 > Why can we not just register with the full set of possible > interrupts? Trying to remember why I did that ... I think it has to do with supporting multiple SoCs that have different possible sources... There might also be a case of some sources routed to the internal coldfire microcontroller or the LPC bus instead of the ARM but I'm not 100% certain. Cheers, Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" i= n the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html