RE: [RFC 2/4] irqchip, gicv3-its:Workaround for HiSilicon erratum 161010801

[Shameerali Kolothum Thodi]

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> From: Mark Rutland [mailto:mark.rutland@xxxxxxx]
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> Subject: Re: [RFC 2/4] irqchip, gicv3-its:Workaround for HiSilicon
> erratum 161010801
sounds like this will have severe implications for virtualization.
> 
> > Also these platforms doesn't have a proper IIDR
> > register to use the existing IIDR based quirk mechanism.
> 
> What exactly is wrong with the IIDR on these platforms? That sounds
> like
> an erratum as of itself.
> 
> What precise value do reads of the IIDR return? Or do reads result in
> other erroneous behaviour?

As far as I know, there is no erroneous behavior while reading.  But the
IIDR JEP106 identity code is 0 on these platforms, hence not much of use.

This will be corrected in next revision of hw.

Thanks,
Shameer