[PATCH 4/4 V3] irqchip: gicv2m: Add support for multiple MSI for ARM64 GICv2m

Suravee Suthikulanit suravee.suthikulpanit at amd.com
Fri Aug 1 07:36:51 PDT 2014


On 7/30/2014 10:16 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Why do we need this complexity at all? Is there any case where we'd want
> to limit ourselves to a single vector for MSI?

I think the ARM64 GICv2m should not be the limitation for the devices 
multiple MSI if there is no real hardware/design limitation.

> arm64 is a new enough architecture so that we can expect all interrupt controllers to cope
> with that.

I am not sure if I understand this comment.

We are not forcing all interrupt controllers for ARM64 to handle 
multi-MSI.  They have the option to support if multi-MSI if they want 
to. I just think that we should not put the architectural limit here.

Thanks,

Suravee




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