On Monday 30 September 2013 10:16 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote: > On 30/09/13 14:59, Sricharan R wrote: >> In some socs the gic can be preceded by a crossbar IP which >> routes the peripheral interrupts to the gic inputs. The peripheral >> interrupts are associated with a fixed crossbar input line and the >> crossbar routes that to one of the free gic input line. >> >> The DT entries for peripherals provides the fixed crossbar input line >> as its interrupt number and the mapping code should associate this with >> a free gic input line. This patch adds the support inside the gic irqchip >> to handle such routable irqs. The routable irqs are registered in a linear >> domain. The registered routable domain's callback should be implemented >> to get a free irq and to configure the IP to route it. > > Isn't this just another chained interrupt controller? How is it GIC > specific? > No it isn't a irq controller rather a event router. Patch is missing reference to the previous discussion. Previous discussion is here [1] Regards, Santosh [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/13/413 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
