arm: msm: Convert irq-vic to generic irq chip

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Mon Apr 25 06:13:58 EDT 2011


2011/4/25 Abhijeet Dharmapurikar <adharmap at codeaurora.org>:

> - the common one uses some PL190 registers, not sure what that is.

PL190 is ARMs name for the VIC: PrimeCell 190.

Every vendor get these PrimeCells as part of their bargin for CPU
cores when licensing ARM IP. Then they tweak them to suit their
needs and fix hardware bugs.

It seems Qualcomm HW engineers did the same thing as everyone
else, tweak a PrimeCell by editing VHDL until it works...

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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