Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: ls1021a-tsn: Use interrupts for the SGMII PHYs

[Alexander Stein]

 On Saturday, November 9, 2019, 4:21:51 PM CET Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On 09/11/2019, Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 09, 2019 at 12:56:42PM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> >> On the LS1021A-TSN board, the 2 Atheros AR8031 PHYs for eth0 and eth1
> >> have interrupt lines connected to the shared IRQ2_B LS1021A pin.
> >>
> >> The interrupts are active low, but the GICv2 controller does not support
> >> active-low and falling-edge interrupts, so the only mode it can be
> >> configured in is rising-edge.
> >
> > Hi Vladimir
> >
> > So how does this work? The rising edge would occur after the interrupt
> > handler has completed? What triggers the interrupt handler?
> >
> > 	Andrew
> >
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> I hope I am not terribly confused about this. I thought I am telling
> the interrupt controller to raise an IRQ as a result of the
> low-to-high transition of the electrical signal. Experimentation sure
> seems to agree with me. So the IRQ is generated immediately _after_
> the PHY has left the line in open drain and it got pulled up to Vdd.

It is correct GIC only supports raising edge and active-high. The IRQ[0:5] on ls1021a are a bit special though.
They not directly connected to GIC, but there is an optional inverter, enabled by default. See RM for register SCFG_INTPCR.
If left to default, those pins get actually active-high internally.
There was a patch 2 years ago to add support for this inverter: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/860993/

Best regards,
Alexander