Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] irqchip: meson: add support for the gpio interrupt controller

From: Marc Zyngier
Date: Wed Oct 18 2017 - 12:48:33 EST


On Mon, Sep 18 2017 at 3:46:07 pm BST, Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This patch series adds support for the GPIO interrupt controller found on
> Amlogic's meson SoC families.
>
> Unlike what the name suggests, this controller is not part of the SoC
> GPIO subsystem. It is a separate controller which can watch almost all
> gpio pads of the SoC and generate and interrupt from it. "Almost" because
> there are always exceptions and some specific gpios (TEST_N) lack this
> capability.
>
> Hardware wise, the controller is a 256 to 8 router with a filtering block
> to select edge or level input and the polarity of the signal. We can't
> setup the filtring to generate a signal on both the high and low polarity
> so, ATM, IRQ_TYPE_EDGE_BOTH is not supported.
>
> The number of interrupt line routed to the controller depends on the SoC,
> and essentially the total number of GPIO available on the different gpio
> controllers of the SoC.
>
> This series has been tested on Amlogic S905-P200 board with the front
> panel power button. Also tested on the Nanopi-k2 with the ethernet PHY
> interrupt pin.
>
> This work is derived from the previous work of Carlo Caione [1].

Queued for 4.15.

M.
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