Re: [PATCH 07/27] irqchip: Declare cortex-a7's irqchip to initialize gic from dt

[Mark Rutland]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:04:59AM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10 2014 at 10:28:24 am BST, Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This patch declare coretex-a7's irqchip to initialze gic from dt
> > with "arm,cortex-a7-gic" data.
> >
> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c
> > index 4300b66..8e906e4 100644
> > --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c
> > +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-gic.c
> > @@ -1069,6 +1069,7 @@ gic_of_init(struct device_node *node, struct device_node *parent)
> >  }
> >  IRQCHIP_DECLARE(cortex_a15_gic, "arm,cortex-a15-gic", gic_of_init);
> >  IRQCHIP_DECLARE(cortex_a9_gic, "arm,cortex-a9-gic", gic_of_init);
> > +IRQCHIP_DECLARE(cortex_a7_gic, "arm,cortex-a7-gic", gic_of_init);
> >  IRQCHIP_DECLARE(msm_8660_qgic, "qcom,msm-8660-qgic", gic_of_init);
> >  IRQCHIP_DECLARE(msm_qgic2, "qcom,msm-qgic2", gic_of_init);
> 
> Frankly, this patch adds no value. Are we going to add
> "arm,cortex-a12-gic", "arm,cortex-a17-gic", "arm,cortex-a53-gic",
> "arm,cortex-a57-gic"? And that's just to mention the ARM Ltd cores...
> 
> Instead, how about defining a generic "arm,gic" property, and mandate
> that new DT files are using that? We can always use a more precise
> compatible for quirks.

Nit: s/property/compatible/

As mentioned elsewhere, "arm,gic-v2" would seem to fit the bill (and we
can have "arm,gic" or "arm,gic-v1" for v1).

> Mark, what do you think? I think this has been discussed in the past
> already.

It's been repeatedly brought up and agreed on, it's just that no-one's
implemented it. I agree that having an "arm,gic-v2" binding that people
can place in their compatible list is a sensible thing to do, and I'd be
happy to Ack patches implementing it.

Cheers,
Mark.
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