Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] sunxi: Support IRQ wakeup from deep sleep

[Marc Zyngier]

[dropped linux-sunxi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, which seems to be a closed ML]

On Sun, 03 Jan 2021 10:30:51 +0000,
Samuel Holland <samuel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Allwinner sun6i/sun8i/sun50i SoCs (A31 and newer) have two interrupt
> controllers: GIC and R_INTC. GIC does not support wakeup. R_INTC handles
> the external NMI pin, and provides 32+ IRQs to the ARISC. The first 16
> of these correspond 1:1 to a block of GIC IRQs starting with the NMI.
> The last 13-16 multiplex the first (up to) 128 GIC SPIs.
> 
> This series replaces the existing chained irqchip driver that could only
> control the NMI, with a stacked irqchip driver that also provides wakeup
> capability for those multiplexed SPI IRQs. The idea is to preconfigure
> the ARISC's IRQ controller, and then the ARISC firmware knows to wake up
> as soon as it receives an IRQ. It can also decide how deep it can
> suspend based on the selected wakeup IRQs.

Out of curiosity, how do you plan to communicate dynamic configuration
of IRQs to the ARISC? We recently went through this with some TI
stuff, and the result a bit awkward (the arm64 side configures
interrupts that are not visible to the kernel, but only to the
co-processors).

I wondered whether you had other ideas...

Thanks,

	M.

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