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

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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?

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

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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