Re: [DT] API to determine if interrupt is PPI or SPI ?

[rvaswani@codeaurora.org]

> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 01:33:36PM +0100, Rob Herring wrote:
>> On 07/26/2012 02:18 PM, rvaswani@codeaurora.org wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > We can specify the interrupt information in the device tree using the
>> arm
>> > gic convention.
>> > Is there an API to read directly the 1st cell and determine if an
>> > interrupt is a PPI or a SPI ? This information is directly relevant to
>> the
>> > driver because it needs to call request_irq or request_percpu_irq
>> based on
>> > this data.
>> >
>> > How should this be done ideally ?
>>
>> Seems a bit strange to me that you would have a h/w block that can be
>> connected either way...
>
> The CPU PMU can be wired as either SPI or PPI. The latter makes more sense
> to
> me but usually (although not exclusively) it's wired using the former.
>
> Will
>

We have the same driver for a hardware for different chipsets and
unfortunately the hardware team decided to connect this GIC interrupt
differently across these chipsets. This leaves us with a software choice
to make.
We could add another property to the device tree (like irq-is-percpu,
irq-is-not-percpu), but that seems redundant.
We were hoping to have an API to tell us the SPI/PPI difference since this
information is already encoded in the interrupt-cells in the device tree
for this device.
Would that be the right way to go or there is something better that can be
done ?

Thanks,
Rohit

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