From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751775Ab1IUFEv (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2011 01:04:51 -0400 Received: from rs35.luxsci.com ([66.216.127.90]:47426 "EHLO rs35.luxsci.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751485Ab1IUFEs (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2011 01:04:48 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 365 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 21 Sep 2011 01:04:48 EDT Message-ID: <4E796EE4.6070704@firmworks.com> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:58:12 -1000 From: Mitch Bradley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110902 Thunderbird/6.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Grant Likely CC: David Miller , dave.martin@linaro.org, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rob.herring@calxeda.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] GIC OF bindings References: <1316550244-3655-1-git-send-email-robherring2@gmail.com> <20110920.224910.1996429830782124690.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 9/20/2011 6:14 PM, Grant Likely wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:49 PM, David Miller wrote: >> From: Rob Herring >> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:24:01 -0500 >> >>> Hopefully, this is the final or near final version of GIC binding support. >>> >>> Changes from the previous version: >>> - SPIs and PPIs are numbered starting at 0. Now the gic has it's own irq >>> domain translate function instead of the simple domain one. >>> - interrupt cell format has changed based on Grant's proposal. >>> - Dropped "ARM: gic: allow irq_start to be 0". Instead, the first 16 irqs >>> are skipped and the domain irq_base adjusted accordingly. >>> - Added a fix to of_irq_find_parent when the parent == child. >>> - Renamed intc_desc.parent to intc_desc.interrupt_parent. >>> - Implemented Grant's algorithm for walking the list of interrupt >>> controllers. Added a return value to interrupt init functions, so they >>> don't get added to the parent list on a init failure. >>> >>> The changes are significant enough that I did not include previous >>> acked/reviewed/tested-by's. >> >> Just out of curiosity where does this "interrupt-parent" property >> come from? >> >> On platforms I am familiar with, the parent path is walked to the root >> and we stop at device nodes that have "interrupt-map" and >> "interrupt-map-mask" properties. >> >> The map and mask are applied to the "reg" property of the device in >> question to see which map entry matches, if a match is found the map >> entry contains the translated interrupt. >> >> And this process continues over and over all the way to the root to get >> the system interrupt that processor actually deals with. >> >> The mechanism shown here seems overly simplistic and not able to handle >> the cases handled by existing OF property schemes in use for several >> years on real systems. > > interrupt-parent has been implemented for years on powerpc. I don't > know if it was ever an Open Firmware thing, but it is in ePAPR [1], > and ARM isn't doing anything novel in that regard. interrupt-parent has been part of the interrupt mapping spec from the inception of same. http://www.openfirmware.info/docs/rec.intmap.d09.pdf > > [1] section 2.4, page 30, > https://www.power.org/resources/downloads/Power_ePAPR_APPROVED_v1.1.pdf > > It is true that is cannot handle all situations, but for those > interrupt-map is still available. > > g. > _______________________________________________ > devicetree-discuss mailing list > devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org > https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/devicetree-discuss > >