Re: [PATCH v6 7/7] arm64: dts: mediatek: Initial mt8365-evk support

Bernhard Rosenkränzer
2023-01-01T21:58:17Z

On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 11:41 PM Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> wrote:
> > + gic: interrupt-controller@c000000 {
> > + compatible = "arm,gic-v3";
> > + #interrupt-cells = <4>;
>
> Why 4 cells? All the SPIs routed via sysirq are perfectly happy with 3
> cells, and all the PPIs have 0 for the 4th cell (none of them use any
> form of partitioning that'd require 4 cells). So where is this coming
> from?

It's coming from the SoC vendor kernel (and went unnoticed because it
happens to work).
Will send an updated version that does the right thing instead. I've
been running it most of the day, so far looking good.

> > + interrupt-parent = <&gic>;
> > + interrupt-controller;
> > + reg = <0 0x0c000000 0 0x80000>, <0 0x0c080000 0 0x80000>;
> > +
>
> The first region is obviously wrong (512kB for the distributor?
> that's... most generous, but the architecture states that it is 64kB,
> and that's wasteful enough).
>
> This is also missing the GICC/GICH/GICV regions that Cortex-A53
> implements, and that must be provided as per the binding.

This was also taken from the vendor kernel; unfortunately neiter the
datasheet for the SoC not the vendor kernel specifies the addresses
for GICC/GICH/GICV.
I've "guessed" based on what's in similar SoCs (MT8183, MT7986a) in
v7; this seems to work (boots, kvm initializes hyp mode properly).

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