[RFC PATCH 0/3] Yet another GIC OF binding series

[Thomas Abraham]

On 10 August 2011 01:46, Rob Herring <robherring2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>
>
> Grant,
>
> Here's yet another patch series for GIC binding and init.
>
> You keep saying we should have a common DT function scanning for interrupt
> controller nodes and calling their initialization functions. But that will
> not work until we have dynamic assignment of linux irq numbers. So either
> everyone should just stop trying to do DT bindings for GIC/VIC until that
> is in place, or we need an interim solution. This is another attempt at
> the latter. I reworked gic_of_init intending for it to be the interrupt
> controller specific initialization function that DT interrupt controller
> scanning code would call. For now, it is just called by the platform code.
> The platform initialization looks something like this:
>
> struct of_intc_desc desc;
> memset(&desc, 0, sizeof(desc));
> desc.controller = of_find_compatible_node(NULL, NULL, "arm,cortex-a9-gic");
> gic_of_init(&desc);
>
> I've addressed your previous comments and in particular initializing more
> than 1 GIC is supported now.

Works fine for Exynos4.

Tested-by: Thomas Abraham <thomas.abraham at linaro.org>

>
> Rob
>
> Rob Herring (3):
>  dt: irq: add interrupt controller descriptor struct
>  ARM: gic: allow irq_start to be 0
>  ARM: gic: add OF based initialization
>
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic.txt |   28 +++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/arm/common/gic.c                         |   36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  arch/arm/include/asm/hardware/gic.h           |    2 +
>  include/linux/of_irq.h                        |    6 ++++
>  4 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/gic.txt
>
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