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

[Lad, Prabhakar]

Hi Geert,

On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 2:12 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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?
>
oops typo here.

> > 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.
Also this bit isnt true (copy pasted from v1 :(). IRQ now is handled
by the slave driver requesting interrupts. IRQC now handles eoi
callbacks.

> > Out of GPIOINT0-122 only 32 can be mapped to GIC SPI, this mapping is handled by
> > the IRQC driver.
>

Cheers,
Prabhakar

> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
>                         Geert
>
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