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From: marc.zyngier@arm•com (Marc Zyngier)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 3/3] ARM: gic: add OF based initialization
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:08:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E423C98.3040305@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1312921020-6820-4-git-send-email-robherring2@gmail.com>

On 09/08/11 21:17, Rob Herring wrote:
> From: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda•com>
> 
> This adds gic initialization using device tree data. An example device tree
> binding looks like this:
> 
> intc: interrupt-controller at fff11000 {
>         compatible = "arm,cortex-a9-gic";
>         #interrupt-cells = <1>;
>         interrupt-controller;
>         reg = <0xfff11000 0x1000>,
>               <0xfff10100 0x100>;
> };

I'm afraid I still object to this. PPIs are an important part of the
GIC, and this binding totally ignores the per-cpu aspect.

How do you represent the connection between a CPU local timer and the
GIC? Even worse, how to represent a device connected to only *one* of
the CPUs? PPIs are difficult to represent on the Linux side. But we
shouldn't ignore them in the DT binding.

Cheers,

	M.
-- 
Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...

  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-10  8:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-09 20:16 [RFC PATCH 0/3] Yet another GIC OF binding series Rob Herring
2011-08-09 20:16 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] dt: irq: add interrupt controller descriptor struct Rob Herring
2011-08-10 13:14   ` Jamie Iles
2011-08-10 13:23     ` Rob Herring
2011-08-09 20:16 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] ARM: gic: allow irq_start to be 0 Rob Herring
2011-08-09 20:17 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] ARM: gic: add OF based initialization Rob Herring
2011-08-10  8:08   ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2011-08-10 18:30     ` Rob Herring
2011-08-25 21:49 ` [PATCH v2] " Rob Herring
2011-08-26  2:37   ` Rob Herring
2011-08-30  3:26 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] Yet another GIC OF binding series Shawn Guo
2011-09-03 13:34 ` Thomas Abraham

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