[PATCH 3/3] ARM: dts: imx6qdl: remove MSI irq line

Lucas Stach l.stach at pengutronix.de
Mon Aug 28 07:23:07 PDT 2017


The DWC PCIe host controller doesn't support MSI and legacy IRQs at
the same time. If the MSI controller is in use (which is always the case,
as PCIe port serives are using MSI IRQs when available), legacy endpoint
devices are unable to raise an IRQ.

Remove the MSI irq line to inhibit the MSI controller from being used,
which is a much better default, as most enpoint devices are able to fall
back to legacy PCIe IRQs, if MSI are not available.

Systems which are validated to work in MSI only mode can opt-in to use
the MSI controller by adding back the MSI irq line in the board DT.

Signed-off-by: Lucas Stach <l.stach at pengutronix.de>
---
 arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6qdl.dtsi | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6qdl.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6qdl.dtsi
index a9723b94bafa..0f47a9d4024e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6qdl.dtsi
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6qdl.dtsi
@@ -209,8 +209,6 @@
 			ranges = <0x81000000 0 0          0x01f80000 0 0x00010000 /* downstream I/O */
 				  0x82000000 0 0x01000000 0x01000000 0 0x00f00000>; /* non-prefetchable memory */
 			num-lanes = <1>;
-			interrupts = <GIC_SPI 120 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
-			interrupt-names = "msi";
 			#interrupt-cells = <1>;
 			interrupt-map-mask = <0 0 0 0x7>;
 			interrupt-map = <0 0 0 1 &gpc GIC_SPI 123 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>,
-- 
2.11.0




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