Re: [PATCH] fsl/mpic: Document and use the "big-endian" device-treeflag

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Wed Jan 04 2012 - 18:12:37 EST


On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 15:22 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 12/22/2011 08:25 AM, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> > The MPIC code checks for a "big-endian" property and sets the flag
> > MPIC_BIG_ENDIAN if one is present. Unfortunately, the PowerQUICC-III
> > compatible device-tree does not specify it, so all of the board ports
> > need to manually set that flag when calling mpic_alloc().
> >
> > Document the flag and add it to the pq3 device tree. Existing code
> > will still need to pass the MPIC_BIG_ENDIAN flag because their dtb may
> > not have this property, but new platforms shouldn't need to do so.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kyle Moffett <Kyle.D.Moffett@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Grant, are you merging this patch?
> I don't think I should merge the patch to arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/pq3-mpic.dtsi.

Best is to leave the whole lot to me. It's not like mpic is used
anywhere else ...

Cheers,
Ben.

> > --
> > .../devicetree/bindings/powerpc/fsl/mpic.txt | 9 ++++++++-
> > arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/pq3-mpic.dtsi | 1 +
> > 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/powerpc/fsl/mpic.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/powerpc/fsl/mpic.txt
> > index 2cf38bd..ebafba2 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/powerpc/fsl/mpic.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/powerpc/fsl/mpic.txt
> > @@ -56,7 +56,14 @@ PROPERTIES
> > to the client. The presence of this property also mandates
> > that any initialization related to interrupt sources shall
> > be limited to sources explicitly referenced in the device tree.
> > -
> > +
> > + - big-endian
> > + Usage: optional
> > + Value type: <empty>
> > + If present the MPIC will be assumed to be big-endian. Some
> > + device-trees omit this property on MPIC nodes even when the MPIC is
> > + in fact big-endian, so certain boards override this property.
> > +
> > INTERRUPT SPECIFIER DEFINITION
> >
> > Interrupt specifiers consists of 4 cells encoded as
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/pq3-mpic.dtsi b/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/pq3-mpic.dtsi
> > index 5c80460..47f2b67 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/pq3-mpic.dtsi
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/pq3-mpic.dtsi
> > @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ mpic: pic@40000 {
> > reg = <0x40000 0x40000>;
> > compatible = "fsl,mpic";
> > device_type = "open-pic";
> > + big-endian;
> > };
> >
> > timer@41100 {
>
>


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