Re: [PATCH 7/7] MIPS: SGI-IP27: abstract chipset irq from bridge

[Thomas Bogendoerfer]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 08:27:21 -0800
Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 03:01:35PM +0100, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 05:33:17 -0800
> > Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > Shouldnt this just use chained irqchip drivers instead?
> > 
> > you mean using irq_set_chained_handler() ? If yes, this IMHO doesn't look usefull
> > because it's used for adding a secondary interrupt controller. But what I need
> > is telling bridge ASIC to direct the xtalk IRQ packet to a specific HUB/HEART/BEDROCK
> > from the HUB/HEART/BEDROCK specific code. And want to avoid dragging in bridge details
> > to that specific code.
> 
> Yes, but don't we have nested interrupt controllers here?  Even if they
> don't really do much in the fast path the setup does look chained to me.
> Then again I'm not really an expert in the irq handling code nor in this
> hardware, so maybe Thomas or Marc might have a better idea.

found a presentation from Marc and what I need here is irqdomain hierarchy.
Which meana converting the whole hub irq code to irqdomain first. Let's see
how easy this will be:-)

Thomas.

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