Re: [RFC 9/9] of/irq: create interrupts-extended property

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On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 19:06:35 +1000, Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwaite@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 17:04:52 +1000, Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwaite@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> > On Wed, 13 Nov 2013 09:17:01 +1000, Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwaite@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> >> It's going to get a little verbose once you start making multiple
>> >> >> connections as you need one mux per wire. Perhaps it could be cleaned
>> >> >> up by making the foo_irq_mux node(s) a child of foo?
>> >> >
>> >> > It could, but then you need some way of attaching a driver to that node,
>> >> > and that would require building knowledge into the driver again.
>> >> >
>> >> > Can you boil it down to a couple of concrete examples? What is a
>> >> > specific example of how the platform should decide which interrupt line
>> >> > to use?
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> So i've spent some time playing with this. I now have a booting kernel
>> >> with multiple root interrupt controllers and peripheral devices
>> >> multiply-connected to both root controllers. But only one on of the
>> >> controllers is used by Linux (as linux being able to use multiple
>> >> intcs is a non-trivial problem). So the scheme I am using is to have
>> >> one of these root intc's marked as disabled via
>> >
>> > Multiple intc's should be a solved problem. What issue are you seeing?
>> > Or is this a microblaze specific problem?
>> >
>>
>> It's multiple root (i.e. have no explicit parent) interrupt
>> controllers. And linux
>> doesnt respect status = "disabled" for interrupt controllers at all it seems.
>
> That can be fixed.  :-)
>

Patches on list.

Regards,
Peter

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