[PATCH] ARM: GIC: Add device tree interrupt specifier translation support

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Fri Aug 5 06:08:59 EDT 2011


On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 09:19:13AM +0100, Thomas Abraham wrote:
> Add support for translation of hardware interrupt numbers specified in device
> tree nodes to linux irq number.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Abraham <thomas.abraham at linaro.org>
> ---
> Notes:
> 1. The translation of SGI/PPI interrupts is supported only for CPU0.
> 2. The documentation is derived from the following patch submitted
>    earlier by Rob Herring.
>    [PATCH 2/3] ARM: gic: add OF based initialization

Ignore SGIs for the purposes of DT.  SGIs aren't part of the hardware
setup of a SoC or device, and are specific to the internals of SMP.



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