[PATCH 1/2] doc/devicetree: Add Aspeed VIC bindings

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Mon May 9 15:04:40 PDT 2016


On Mon, 2016-05-09 at 16:20 +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> 
> Generally we steer clear of this kind of bitmap encoding in DT.
> 
> Is this actually necessary? What does htis gain us?
> 
> Why can we not just register with the full set of possible
> interrupts?

Trying to remember why I did that ... I think it has to do with
supporting multiple SoCs that have different possible sources...

There might also be a case of some sources routed to the internal
coldfire microcontroller or the LPC bus instead of the ARM but I'm not
100% certain.

Cheers,
Ben.




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