Re: pcie-iproc-msi.c: Bug in Multi-MSI support?

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On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 7:34 PM Ray Jui <ray.jui@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>
> Here's the thing. All Broadcom ARMv8 based SoCs have migrated to use
> either gicv2m or gicv3-its for MSI/MSIX support. The platforms that
> still use iProc event queue based MSI are only legacy ARMv7 based
> platforms. Out of them:
>
> NSP - dual core
> Cygnus - single core
> HR2 - single core
>
> So based on this, it seems to me that it still makes sense to allow
> multi-msi to be supported on single core platforms, and Sandor's company
> seems to need such support in their particular use case. Sandor, can you
> confirm?

Right - we are using it in production on legacy ARMv7 SOCs.

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>
> Thanks. This makes sense. And it looks like this can be addressed
> separately from the above issue. I'll have to allocate time to work on
> this. In addition, I'd also need someone else with the NSP dual-core
> platform to test it for me since we don't have these legacy platforms in
> our office anymore.
>

I will be able to test patches on the XGS Katana2 SOC - which is dual core.



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