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From: nm@ti•com (Nishanth Menon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] misc: Add crossbar driver
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 13:51:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51F0223E.4050008@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51F02069.3050207@ti.com>

On 07/24/2013 01:43 PM, Sricharan R wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 July 2013 10:17 PM, Nishanth Menon wrote:
>> On 07/24/2013 11:38 AM, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 24 July 2013 12:08 PM, Nishanth Menon wrote:
>>>> That said, maybe a intermediate pinctrl approach might be more pragmatic and less theoretically flexible.
>>>> an option might be to "statically allocate" default number of interrupts to a domain - example:
>>>> * GIC IRQ 72->78 allotted to UARTs
>>>> * pinctrl mapping provided for those but only 6 can be used (rest are marked status="disabled" as default) at any given time (choice of pinctrl option determines GIC interrupt line to use)
>>>> * All modules will have a pinctrl definition to have a mapping - to avoid bootloader overriding default cross bar setting in ways un-expected by kernel.
>>>>
>>>> Does that sound fair trade off?
>>> This sounds better. That way we can get all the devices in the DT at least.
>>
>> Fair enough - if Linus and Tony are still ok with this approach to the problem, seeing a patch series with the effect would be beneficial.
>>
>   Ok, i will use this idea of certain number interrupts to groups.
> Yes on DRA7XX, we have about 160 gic lines and 320 irq crossbar device inputs contending for it.
> 1:2 and fully arbitrary.  But will we be really exhausting them ?
>
Depends on how we allocate :). The default arbitary allocation can be 
made more logical in your series ofcourse :).


-- 
Regards,
Nishanth Menon

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-24 18:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-18 16:43 [PATCH 0/3] Add crossbar driver Sricharan R
2013-07-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 1/3] misc: " Sricharan R
2013-07-18 16:55   ` Joe Perches
2013-07-18 18:25   ` Felipe Balbi
2013-07-21 16:33     ` Linus Walleij
2013-07-18 18:56   ` Nishanth Menon
2013-07-18 23:39     ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-07-19  0:13       ` Nishanth Menon
2013-07-19 10:48         ` Sricharan R
2013-07-19  7:17       ` Tony Lindgren
2013-07-19 10:48         ` Sricharan R
2013-07-21 16:49     ` Linus Walleij
2013-07-22 12:20       ` Sricharan R
2013-07-22 16:23         ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-07-24 16:08           ` Nishanth Menon
2013-07-24 16:38             ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-07-24 16:47               ` Nishanth Menon
2013-07-24 18:43                 ` Sricharan R
2013-07-24 18:51                   ` Nishanth Menon [this message]
2013-07-24 18:59                     ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-08-13  8:10                       ` Tony Lindgren
2013-08-13  9:56                         ` Sricharan R
2013-08-13 13:29                           ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-08-15 20:01                           ` Linus Walleij
2013-08-15 20:26                             ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-08-15 20:51                               ` Linus Walleij
2013-08-15 21:14                                 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-08-21 21:10                                   ` Linus Walleij
2013-08-22 11:33                                     ` Sricharan R
2013-08-22 13:45                                       ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-08-23  4:47                                       ` Rajendra Nayak
2013-08-23  6:11                                         ` Sricharan R
2013-08-23  6:17                                           ` Rajendra Nayak
2013-08-23  6:36                                           ` Sekhar Nori
2013-08-23  6:53                                             ` Sricharan R
2013-08-23  8:14                                               ` Sekhar Nori
2013-08-23 13:38                                                 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-08-23 16:28                                                   ` Sekhar Nori
2013-08-23 19:06                                                     ` Linus Walleij
2013-08-23 19:44                                                       ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-08-13 13:28                         ` Santosh Shilimkar
2013-08-14  7:27                           ` Tony Lindgren
2013-07-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 2/3] ARM: dts: DRA: Add crossbar device binding Sricharan R
2013-07-18 19:04   ` Nishanth Menon
2013-07-18 16:43 ` [PATCH 3/3] ARM: DRA7xx: Enable crossbar driver for the soc Sricharan R

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