Re: [PATCH 00/24] MIPS GIC cleanup, part 1

From: Andrew Bresticker
Date: Wed Sep 17 2014 - 13:42:37 EST


On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 3:20 AM, Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 09/16/2014 12:51 AM, Andrew Bresticker wrote:
>>
>> The current MIPS GIC driver and the platform code using it are rather
>> ugly and could use a good cleanup before adding device-tree support [0].
>> This major issues addressed in this series are converting the GIC (and
>> platforms using it) to use IRQ domains and properly mapping interrupts
>> through the GIC instead of using it transparently. For part 2 I plan
>> on: updating the driver to use proper iomem accessors, cleaning up and
>> moving the GIC clocksource driver to drivers/clocksource/, adding DT
>> support, and possibly converting the GIC driver to use generic irqchip.
>>
>> Patches 1-16 are cleanups for the existing GIC driver and prepare
>> platforms
>> using it for the switch to IRQ domains and using the GIC in a
>> non-transparent
>> way.
>>
>> Patches 17-24 convert the GIC driver to use IRQ domains and updates the
>> platforms using it to properly map GIC interrupts instead of using the
>> static
>> routing tables to make the GIC appear transparent.
>>
>> I've tested this series on Malta and, with additional patches, on the
>> DT-enabled Danube platform. Unfortunately I do not have SEAD-3 hardware,
>> so that has only been compile tested. Compile tested on all other
>> affected
>> architectures (ath79, ralink, lantiq).
>
>
> I boot tested this on sead3 without problems.

Thanks Qais! Can I add your Tested-by for the series?
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