Re: [PATCH 04/12] MIPS: GIC: Move MIPS_GIC_IRQ_BASE into platform irq.h

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On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 12:57 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Friday 29 August 2014 15:14:31 Andrew Bresticker wrote:
>> Define a generic MIPS_GIC_IRQ_BASE which is suitable for Malta and
>> the upcoming Danube board in <mach-generic/irq.h>.  Since Sead-3 is
>> different and uses a MIPS_GIC_IRQ_BASE equal to the CPU IRQ base (0),
>> define its MIPS_GIC_IRQ_BASE in <mach-sead3/irq.h>.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>
> Why do you actually have to hardwire an IRQ base? Can't you move
> to the linear irqdomain code for DT based MIPS systems yet?

Neither Malta nor SEAD-3 use device-tree for interrupts yet, so they
still require a hard-coded IRQ base.  For boards using device-tree, I
stuck with a legacy IRQ domain as it allows most of the existing GIC
irqchip code to be reused.


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