Re: [RFC PATCH v3 0/7] Renesas RZ/G2L IRQC support

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Fri Nov 12 2021 - 09:12:45 EST


Hi Prabhakar,

On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 11:58 PM Lad Prabhakar
<prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The RZ/G2L Interrupt Controller is a front-end for the GIC found on
> Renesas RZ/G2L SoC's with below pins:
> - IRQ sense select for 8 external interrupts, mapped to 8 GIC SPI interrupts
> - GPIO pins used as external interrupt input pins out of GPIOINT0-122 a
> maximum of only 32 can be mapped to 32 GIC SPI interrupts,
> - NMI edge select.
>
> _____________
> | GIC |
> | ________ |
> ____________ | | | |
> NMI ------------------------------------>| | SPI0-479 | | GIC-600| |
> _______ | |------------>| | |
> | | | | PPI16-31 | | | |
> | | IRQ0-IRQ8 | IRQC |------------>| | |

IRQ0-IRQ7?

> P0_P48_4 ------>| GPIO |---------------->| | | |________| |
> | |GPIOINT0-122 | | | |
> | |---------------->| TINT0-31 | | |
> |______| |__________| |____________|
>
> The proposed RFC patches, add the IRQ domains in GPIO (pinctrl driver) and the
> IRQC driver. The IRQC domain handles the actual SPI interrupt and upon reception
> of the interrupt it propagates to the GPIO IRQ domain to handle virq.
> Out of GPIOINT0-122 only 32 can be mapped to GIC SPI, this mapping is handled by
> the IRQC driver.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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