[PATCH] ARM: Common GIC entry macro code V2

Magnus Damm magnus.damm at gmail.com
Thu Nov 11 22:34:21 EST 2010


On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Daniel Walker <dwalker at codeaurora.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 16:49 +0900, Magnus Damm wrote:
>> From: Magnus Damm <damm at opensource.se>
>>
>> This patch is the identical GIC demux implementation
>> merge V2. Instead of implementing same code over and
>> over simply share it in entry-macro-gic.S. The shared
>> code is based on the realview implementation.
>>
>> Each GIC demux instance still has to setup the base address
>> of the controller using the get_irqnr_preamble macro. The
>> rest of the GIC specific code can be shared.
>>
>> The omap code is excluded due to complexity and lack of
>> hardware - the CONFIG_SMP macros are used for multi-omap
>> and the omap4 case - this makes is difficult to share code.
>>
>> The s5pv310 subarch is excluded due to the special "addne"
>> instruction in the get_irqnr_and_base macro.
>>
>> The msm subarch is excluded as well since it treats PPIs
>> differently than other platforms and needs a different
>> version of the get_irqnr_and_base macro.
>
> I'm a little disappoint you didn't CC someone MSM related on this. Your
> patch is small enough that you can CC everyone effected. Here's
> get_maintainer.pl output on it,
>
> Russell King <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>
> Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov at mvista.com>
> Srinidhi Kasagar <srinidhi.kasagar at stericsson.com>
> Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at stericsson.com>
> Alessandro Rubini <rubini at unipv.it>
> linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org

Hi Daniel,

Sorry to disappoint you, will use get_maintainer.pl and include people
from former versions when I send out next version.

> At least those people should be getting this. Also, why can't you break
> this up per sub-architecture ?



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