[PATCH 2/4] ARM: OMAP2/3: intc: Add DT support for TI interrupt controller

Cousson, Benoit b-cousson at ti.com
Fri Dec 9 09:52:14 EST 2011


On 12/9/2011 2:20 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> On 12/08/2011 08:59 AM, Cousson, Benoit wrote:
>> On 12/7/2011 10:20 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
>>> On 12/07/2011 02:50 PM, Benoit Cousson wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_OF
>>>> +int __init intc_of_init(struct device_node *node, struct device_node
>>>> *parent)
>>>> +{
>>>> +    struct resource res;
>>>> +    u32 nr_irqs;
>>>> +
>>>> +    if (WARN_ON(!node))
>>>> +        return -ENODEV;
>>>> +
>>>> +    if (of_address_to_resource(node, 0,&res)) {
>>>> +        WARN(1, "unable to get intc registers\n");
>>>> +        return -EINVAL;
>>>> +    }
>>>> +
>>>> +    if (of_property_read_u32(node, "ti,intc-size",&nr_irqs)) {
>>>> +        WARN(1, "unable to get intc-size\n");
>>>> +        return -EINVAL;
>>>
>>> There is no default value that makes sense?
>>
>> So far we have 96 or 128, so I can put 96 as a default and just keep the
>> warning without returning an error.
>>
>>>> +    }
>>>> +
>>>> +    omap_init_irq(res.start, nr_irqs);
>>>> +    irq_domain_add_simple(node, 0);
>>>
>>> Have you read the NO_IRQ thread...
>>
>> Yeah, I tried, but that's a long email thread with some unclear
>> conclusion...
>> The point is that the few users of that API today are using 0 as a base
>> as well, so I thought it was still valid.
>>
>>> Is 0 ever a valid interrupt for a driver? If so, you must not use 0 for
>>> the base. I would pick 16 to skip over legacy ISA irqs.
>>
>> I do not have any 0 interrupts right now, my concern is that I still
>> have some legacy non-DT drivers that expect the previous hwirq = irq
>> mapping.
>
> I guess it depends how easily you can shift all the irq defines. You
> allow specifying the base so that you can set it to 0 for non-DT and -1
> (dynamic allocation) for DT.

The issue, is that the IRQs are not defined anymore but hard coded in 
the hwmod database. And the idea is that this is reflecting exactly the 
hwirq from the spec, so I do not want to add any artificial offset for 
the domain in the original data.

>>> irqdomains should always be enabled regardless of CONFIG_OF. So either
>>> you can leave it as is if OF is always enabled for OMAP, or you should
>>> move domain setup into omap_init_irq.
>>
>> OK, but it looks like I cannot really modify the current INTC to DT
>> without having fully adapted the OMAP drivers to use
>> irq_of_parse_and_map. Or did I miss something?
>>
>
> No, the drivers should not need to be modified as long as they get the
> irq's from platform device resources. You just want to make sure the
> INTC has no knowledge of it's irq base so it can change.

OK, the driver will not have to change but the IRQ value will not be the 
same in the case of DT since it will use the irq_create_of_mapping.

Currently, the driver IRQ resource is 7 for example for the twl, this is 
the hwirq (= irq). If I use a domain with a base of 16, the resource 
will still be 7 except if the resource is created from OF, then it will 
be 23.

The only way I have today to maintain the legacy drivers to work without 
hacking the OMAP resource code is to keep the base_irq at 0.

Since I do not have any hwirq at 0 so far, is it a big deal to keep the 
base_irq at 0 for the moment?
It will be easier to transition to DT that way without breaking the 
existing drivers.

Regards,
Benoit




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