[Q] GIC : IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW interrupts

Rabin Vincent rabin at rab.in
Wed Apr 13 03:47:17 EDT 2011


On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 00:32, Santosh Shilimkar
<santosh.shilimkar at ti.com> wrote:
> As part of the commit 5c0c1f08a (gic: implement set_type)
> change, I see that you are ignoring interrupts which
> are of LOW_LEVEL type. Why is that ?
>
> There are interrupts of LOW_LEVEL type on OMAP and this
> change break those.

Please see the discussion on an earlier, similar patch:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/75509/.  The discussion did
not move further at that time and the "rather easy" solution
mentioned there was implemented.

The GIC spec seems to only talk about rising-edge and active
high:
http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0048a/CACCAGCF.html



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