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From: majun258@huawei•com (majun (F))
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/3] IRQ/Gic-V3: Add mbigen driver to support mbigen interrupt controller
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 17:22:05 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55A777BD.4080504@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55A770E2.2040300@arm.com>



? 2015/7/16 16:52, Marc Zyngier ??:
> On 16/07/15 09:35, majun (F) wrote:

>>> I'm a bit puzzled.
>>
>> For interrupts connect to mbigen , the interrupt trigger type, device id and
>> event id value are encoded in mbigen chip already.
>>
>> There are two types of mbigen node within a mbigen chip.
>> Type1: event id valud can't be programmed.
>> Type2: event id value can be programmed.
>>
>> For example: An device with 5 interrupts connected to Mbigen node
>> type 1.The default event id vlaue encoded in mbigen chip for these 5 interrupt
>> is from 0 to 4.
>>
>> Because the event id value can't be programmed, we need to define all of
>> 5 interrupts in dts file so that these 5 interrupt has
> 
> You can define what you want in the device tree, the ITS doesn't care!
> Nothing in the ITS code parses this property, and there is absolutely
> zero chance that the even the ITS has allocated will actually match what
> you expect.
> 
> The ITS *relies* on the principle that the evenID can be programmed,
> just like any MSI controller relies on the device to be programmed with
> whatever payload has been provided. If all of a sudden we have to
> support HW that has its own view of the payload, what you have here will
> simply not work.
> 
"If all of a sudden we have to
 support HW that has its own view of the payload, what you have here will
 simply not work."

I am not very unstand this case, would you please explain this more detail?
Thanks!

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-16  9:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-06  7:09 [PATCH v3 0/3] IRQ/Gic-V3:Support Mbigen interrupt controller Ma Jun
2015-07-06  7:09 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] IRQ/Gic-V3: Add mbigen driver to support mbigen " Ma Jun
2015-07-06 12:33   ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-07-08  4:21     ` majun (F)
2015-07-08 10:44       ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-07-16  8:35         ` majun (F)
2015-07-08 15:16       ` Marc Zyngier
2015-07-16  8:35         ` majun (F)
2015-07-16  8:52           ` Marc Zyngier
2015-07-16  9:22             ` majun (F) [this message]
2015-07-16  9:30               ` Marc Zyngier
2015-07-16 12:26                 ` majun (F)
2015-07-16 13:37                   ` Marc Zyngier
2015-07-27  2:25                     ` majun (F)
2015-07-08 15:30   ` Marc Zyngier
2015-07-16  8:35     ` majun (F)
2015-07-06  7:09 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] IRQ/Gic-V3: Change arm-gic-its to support the Mbigen interrupt Ma Jun
2015-07-06  7:09 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] dt-binding:Documents the mbigen bindings Ma Jun
2015-07-08 13:40   ` Mark Rutland
2015-07-08 14:01     ` Marc Zyngier
2015-07-16  8:35     ` majun (F)
2015-07-20 16:38       ` Mark Rutland
2015-07-25  3:03         ` majun (F)

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