Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: timer: econet: Update EN751627 for multi-IRQ

[Conor Dooley]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2026 at 05:51:00PM +0000, Caleb James DeLisle wrote:
> From conception, this driver supported EN751627 as it is the same
> hardware that is used in EN751221. However, it was expected that
> EN751627 would use a percpu IRQ as does EN751221, this is how it
> works in vendor code. However upon finding that the "mti,gic" intc
> works on EN751627 with no modification - but it provides a unique
> interrupt per-timer, it is deemed best to make this driver use
> multiple IRQs when on the EN751627 platform.

Please drop mention of drivers here, bindings are about hardware,
whether or not the driver uses 1 or 4 interrupts doesn't matter, the
binding should have 4 because the hardware has 4.
pw-bot: changes-requested

Otherwise, this looks fine, so with that stuff culled
Acked-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> 
> Signed-off-by: Caleb James DeLisle <cjd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  .../bindings/timer/econet,en751221-timer.yaml    | 16 +++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/econet,en751221-timer.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/econet,en751221-timer.yaml
> index c1e7c2b6afde..f338739e039c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/econet,en751221-timer.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/timer/econet,en751221-timer.yaml
> @@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ properties:
>      maxItems: 2
>  
>    interrupts:
> -    maxItems: 1
> -    description: A percpu-devid timer interrupt shared across CPUs.
> +    minItems: 1
> +    maxItems: 4
>  
>    clocks:
>      maxItems: 1
> @@ -52,21 +52,31 @@ allOf:
>            items:
>              - description: VPE timers 0 and 1
>              - description: VPE timers 2 and 3
> +        interrupts:
> +          description: An interrupt for each timer (one per VPE)
> +          minItems: 4
>      else:
>        properties:
>          reg:
>            items:
>              - description: VPE timers 0 and 1
> +        interrupts:
> +          description: A percpu-devid timer interrupt shared across timers
> +          maxItems: 1
>  
>  additionalProperties: false
>  
>  examples:
>    - |
> +    #include <dt-bindings/interrupt-controller/mips-gic.h>
>      timer@1fbf0400 {
>          compatible = "econet,en751627-timer", "econet,en751221-timer";
>          reg = <0x1fbf0400 0x100>, <0x1fbe0000 0x100>;
>          interrupt-parent = <&intc>;
> -        interrupts = <30>;
> +        interrupts = <GIC_SHARED 30 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>,
> +                     <GIC_SHARED 29 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>,
> +                     <GIC_SHARED 37 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>,
> +                     <GIC_SHARED 36 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
>          clocks = <&hpt_clock>;
>      };
>    - |
> -- 
> 2.39.5
>

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