Re: [PATCH 06/12] riscv: dts: allwinner: Add the D1 SoC base devicetree

[Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>]

On Mon, 22 Aug 2022 12:13:42 +0000
<Conor.Dooley@microchip.com> wrote:

Hi,

> On 22/08/2022 12:46, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
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> > Hi Conor, Andre,
> > 
> > On Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 12:07 PM <Conor.Dooley@microchip.com> wrote:  
> >> On 21/08/2022 07:45, Icenowy Zheng wrote:  
> >>> 在 2022-08-20星期六的 17:29 +0000，Conor.Dooley@microchip.com写道：  
> >>>> On 20/08/2022 18:24, Samuel Holland wrote:  
> 
> >>>>> This is not feasible, due to the different #interrupt-cells. See
> >>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/CAMuHMdXHSMcrVOH+vcrdRRF+i2TkMcFisGxHMBPUEa8nTMFpzw@mail.gmail.com/
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Even if we share some file across architectures, you still have to
> >>>>> update files
> >>>>> in both places to get the interrupts properties correct.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I get the desire to deduplicate things, but we already deal with
> >>>>> updating the
> >>>>> same/similar nodes across several SoCs, so that is nothing new. I
> >>>>> think it would
> >>>>> be more confusing/complicated to have all of the interrupts
> >>>>> properties
> >>>>> overridden in a separate file.  
> >>>>
> >>>> Yeah, should maybe have circled back after that conversation, would
> >>>> have been
> >>>> nice but if the DTC can't do it nicely then w/e.  
> >>>
> >>> Well, maybe we can overuse the facility of C preprocessor?
> >>>
> >>> e.g.
> >>>
> >>> ```
> >>> // For ARM
> >>> #define SOC_PERIPHERAL_IRQ(n) GIC_SPI n
> >>> // For RISC-V
> >>> #define SOC_PERIPHERAL_IRQ(n) n
> >>> ```
> >>>  
> >>
> >> Geert pointed out that this is not possible (at least on the Renesas
> >> stuff) because the GIC interrupt numbers are not the same as the
> >> PLIC's & the DTC is not able to handle the addition:
> >> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/CAMuHMdXHSMcrVOH+vcrdRRF+i2TkMcFisGxHMBPUEa8nTMFpzw@mail.gmail.com/  
> > 
> > Without the ability to do additions in DTC, we could e.g. list both
> > interrupts in the macro, like:
> > 
> >      // For ARM
> >      #define SOC_PERIPHERAL_IRQ(na, nr) GIC_SPI na
> >      // For RISC-V
> >      #define SOC_PERIPHERAL_IRQ(na, nr) nr  
> 
> Do you think this is worth doing? Or are you just providing an
> example of what could be done?
> 
> Where would you envisage putting these macros? I forget the order
> of the CPP operations that are done, can they be put in the dts?
> 
> > 
> > On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 12:52 PM Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> wrote:  
> >> There are interrupt-maps for that:
> >> sun8i-r528.dtsi:
> >>          soc {
> >>                  #interrupt-cells = <1>;
> >>                  interrupt-map = <0  18 &gic GIC_SPI  2 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>,
> >>                                  <0  19 &gic GIC_SPI  3 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>,
> >>                                  ....
> >>
> >> sun20i-d1.dtsi:
> >>          soc {
> >>                  #interrupt-cells = <1>;
> >>                  interrupt-map = <0  18 &plic  18 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>,
> >>                                  <0  19 &plic  19 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>,
> >>
> >> then, in the shared .dtsi:
> >>                  uart0: serial@2500000 {
> >>                          compatible = "snps,dw-apb-uart";
> >>                          ...
> >>                          interrupts = <18>;  
> > 
> > Nice! But it's gonna be a very large interrupt-map.  
> 
> I quite like the idea of not duplicating files across the archs
> if it can be helped, but not at the expense of making them hard to
> understand & I feel like unfortunately the large interrupt map is
> in that territory.

Well, I don't know about the Renesas case, but as far as we know the
Allwinner D1 and R528 are using the exact same die, just fused differently.
So expressing this in a common .dtsi sounds very desirable, especially
since a devicetree is an architecture agnostic data structure.

And while it's true that a DT interrupt-map is not for the faint of heart,
I think even the casual reader gets the idea quickly by looking at
it, possibly guided by a comment.
And it doesn't need to be very large. grep counted 32 genuine interrupts
in the current .dtsi file, so I just put those ones needed in. If we need
more IRQs later (quite likely), they are easily added, using copy&paste.

Cheers,
Andre