Re: [PATCH V4 8/9] dt-bindings: arm-gic: Add documentation for Tegra210 AGIC

From: Rob Herring
Date: Mon May 16 2016 - 12:05:58 EST


On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 04:19:31PM +0100, Jon Hunter wrote:
> The Tegra AGIC is an interrupt controller that is compatible with the
> ARM GIC-400, however, it is a 2nd level controller and requires runtime
> power-management because it is outside the main CPU complex. Ideally,
> the AGIC would use the existing "arm,gic-400" compatibility string, but
> because of the power management requirements it cannot be initialised
> early and is initialised by a platform driver. Therefore, to distinguish
> between the Tegra AGIC and a normal GIC-400, and to ensure that the
> appropriate driver initialises the AGIC, add the compatible string and
> clock information for the AGIC to the GIC device-tree binding
> documentation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/arm,gic.txt | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>