RE: [PATCH V3 2/2] drivers/irqchip: add NXP INTMUX interrupt multiplexer support

From: Marc Zyngier
Date: Fri Dec 20 2019 - 09:20:23 EST


On 2019-12-20 14:10, Joakim Zhang wrote:
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From: Lokesh Vutla <lokeshvutla@xxxxxx>

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Does the user care to which channel does the interrupt source goes to? If not,
interrupt-cells in DT can just be a single entry and the channel selection can be
controlled by the driver no? I am trying to understand why user should specify
the channel no.
Hi Lokesh,

If a fixed channel is specified in the driver, all interrupt sources
will be connected to this channel, affecting the interrupt priority to
some extent.

From my point of view, a fixed channel could be enough if don't care
interrupt priority.

Hold on a sec:

Is the channel to which an interrupt is routed to programmable? What has
the priority of the interrupt to do with this? How does this affect
interrupt delivery?

It looks like this HW does more that you initially explained...

M.
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