[PATCH] irqchip: add support for Marvell Orion SoCs

Jason Gunthorpe jgunthorpe at obsidianresearch.com
Thu May 2 15:35:10 EDT 2013


On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 09:05:38PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:

> >>+static struct of_device_id orion_irq_dt_ids[] __initconst = {
> >>+	{ .compatible = "marvell,orion-mpic", .data = orion_of_init },
> >>+	{ }
> >
> >Is there a strong reason to change the compatible string? Looks to me
> >like either the new driver or the old driver will bind depending on
> >what is in the machine description. No need for a new string?
> 
> The reason for a new compatible string is, that we will also need an
> secondary irq controller for bridge irqs. That could be called
> marvell,orion-spic. Dove is again a little bit different than the
> others and this will require timer and especially rtc not to share
> bridge irqs here. RTC irq is located in PMU regs on Dove instead of
> bridge regs.

As Arnd mentioned, I would keep the old name then..

The bridge controller can be called marvell,orion-intc-bridge, and if
Dove needs a pmu controller, marvell,dove-intc-pmu ?

> >.. which lets this go away, use the generic irqchip_init instead of
> >orion_init_irq.
> 
> Same as above.

I have kirkwood HW but I haven't had time to make newer kernels run on
it, otherwise I'd test it too :(

Jason



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