Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] ARM: dts: Device tree for AXM55xx.

[Linus Walleij]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Anders Berg <anders.berg@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 11:16:18AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Anders Berg <anders.berg@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 03:24:14PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
>>
>> >> One interrupt per CPU core?
>> >>
>> >> The drivers for these blocks will really just grab the first IRQ and
>> >> then I guess they
>> >> will only be able to execute on CPU0.
>> >>
>> >> It's definately correct to list all the IRQs here, but how do you envision
>> >> the drivers making use of them in the long run?
>> >
>> > It's one interrupt line per input pin (so with the current driver only the first pin
>> > is usable as interrupt source).
>>
>> Hm I'm not sure I understand what a "pin" is in this concept ...
>> being maintainer of the pin control subsystem and all that really
>> triggers my interest.
>>
>
> Ok, maybe should replace "pin" with "GPIO" in my previous comment.
>
> So, a clarification. In one of the PL061 blocks (named gpio0 in the dts) there
> is a separate interrupt per GPIO (I assume the motivation here is to enable to
> control irq affinity per GPIO), where as the other block has a more standard
> configuration with a single interrupt for all 8 GPIOs in that block.

OK! I get it. Thus this is not a stock PL061, but a version modified to
generate a separate IRQ line per GPIO line.

This means that you can only get a proper, working IRQ from the
first line on gpio0 right? All other IRQs will be ignored.

I see no problem in augmenting the driver to handle this
if #irqs == 8, the big change needs to happen in drivers/amba/bus.c
that has no way to pass any more than two IRQs atm.

I guess the best is to augment struct amba_device with a field
struct resource *resource and num_resources like platform_device
instead of the hard-coded single resource for iomem and two
hardcoded IRQ placeholders, so that an arbitrary amount of
resources can be added to an amba_device as well. But that
may be quite a lot of work. (Russell will know which direction to
take here.)

A simpler, local approach is to add some custom DT parsing
code to handle this in the pl061 driver, but that feels a bit
hacky.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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