On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> 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? I thought so from the beginning but I was dead wrong, as pointed out by tglx it is basically a hardware .map function, so its usecase will map to the irqdomain .map/.unmap so to say. Yours, Linus Walleij -- 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
