[PATCH v4 0/3] Add Mediatek CIRQ interrupt controller
Youlin Pei
youlin.pei at mediatek.com
Fri Apr 7 05:54:44 EDT 2017
On Fri, 2017-04-07 at 09:52 +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 07/04/17 09:06, Youlin Pei wrote:
> > In Mediatek SOCs, the CIRQ is a low power interrupt controller designed to
> > works outside MCUSYS which comprises with Cortex-Ax cores,CCI and GIC.
> >
> > The CIRQ controller is integrated in between MCUSYS and interrupt sources
> > as the second level interrupt controller. The external interrupts which
> > outside MCUSYS will feed through CIRQ then bypass to GIC.
> >
> > In normal mode(where MCUSYS is active), CIRQ is disabled and interrupts
> > will directly issue to MCUSYS. When MCUSYS enters sleep mode, where GIC
> > is power downed. CIRQ will be enabled and monitor all edge trigger
> > interrupts(only edge trigger interrupts will be lost in this scenario).
> > When an edge interrupt is triggered, CIRQ will record the status and
> > generated a pulse signal to GIC when flush command is executed.
> >
> > With CIRQ, MCUSYS can be completely turned off to improve the system
> > power consumption without losing interrupts.
> >
> > change in v4:
> > 1. add some comment to explain CIRQ suspend callback.
> > 2. rebase on 4.11
>
> Hi Youlin,
>
> I'm happy to take the first two patches through the irq tree. How do we
> deal with the third one? It seems to me that it'd be better routed via
> armsoc.
>
> Let me know what you and Matthias want to do.
Hi Marc,
Thanks for your review. I think that driver and dtsi can merged
separately.
Hi Matthias,
Could you help to review the dtsi patch?
Thanks a lot!
>
> Thanks,
>
> M.
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