On 12/09/2011 08:52 AM, Cousson, Benoit wrote:
> On 12/9/2011 2:20 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
>> On 12/08/2011 08:59 AM, Cousson, Benoit wrote:
>>> On 12/7/2011 10:20 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
>>>> On 12/07/2011 02:50 PM, Benoit Cousson wrote:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_OF
>>>>> +int __init intc_of_init(struct device_node *node, struct device_node
>>>>> *parent)
>>>>> +{
>>>>> + struct resource res;
>>>>> + u32 nr_irqs;
>>>>> +
>>>>> + if (WARN_ON(!node))
>>>>> + return -ENODEV;
>>>>> +
>>>>> + if (of_address_to_resource(node, 0,&res)) {
>>>>> + WARN(1, "unable to get intc registers\n");
>>>>> + return -EINVAL;
>>>>> + }
>>>>> +
>>>>> + if (of_property_read_u32(node, "ti,intc-size",&nr_irqs)) {
>>>>> + WARN(1, "unable to get intc-size\n");
>>>>> + return -EINVAL;
>>>>
>>>> There is no default value that makes sense?
>>>
>>> So far we have 96 or 128, so I can put 96 as a default and just keep the
>>> warning without returning an error.
>>>
>>>>> + }
>>>>> +
>>>>> + omap_init_irq(res.start, nr_irqs);
>>>>> + irq_domain_add_simple(node, 0);
>>>>
>>>> Have you read the NO_IRQ thread...
>>>
>>> Yeah, I tried, but that's a long email thread with some unclear
>>> conclusion...
>>> The point is that the few users of that API today are using 0 as a base
>>> as well, so I thought it was still valid.
>>>
>>>> Is 0 ever a valid interrupt for a driver? If so, you must not use 0 for
>>>> the base. I would pick 16 to skip over legacy ISA irqs.
>>>
>>> I do not have any 0 interrupts right now, my concern is that I still
>>> have some legacy non-DT drivers that expect the previous hwirq = irq
>>> mapping.
>>
>> I guess it depends how easily you can shift all the irq defines. You
>> allow specifying the base so that you can set it to 0 for non-DT and -1
>> (dynamic allocation) for DT.
>
> The issue, is that the IRQs are not defined anymore but hard coded in
> the hwmod database. And the idea is that this is reflecting exactly the
> hwirq from the spec, so I do not want to add any artificial offset for
> the domain in the original data.
>
>>>> irqdomains should always be enabled regardless of CONFIG_OF. So either
>>>> you can leave it as is if OF is always enabled for OMAP, or you should
>>>> move domain setup into omap_init_irq.
>>>
>>> OK, but it looks like I cannot really modify the current INTC to DT
>>> without having fully adapted the OMAP drivers to use
>>> irq_of_parse_and_map. Or did I miss something?
>>>
>>
>> No, the drivers should not need to be modified as long as they get the
>> irq's from platform device resources. You just want to make sure the
>> INTC has no knowledge of it's irq base so it can change.
>
> OK, the driver will not have to change but the IRQ value will not be the
> same in the case of DT since it will use the irq_create_of_mapping.
>
> Currently, the driver IRQ resource is 7 for example for the twl, this is
> the hwirq (= irq). If I use a domain with a base of 16, the resource
> will still be 7 except if the resource is created from OF, then it will
> be 23.
>
> The only way I have today to maintain the legacy drivers to work without
> hacking the OMAP resource code is to keep the base_irq at 0.
>
For non-DT case, that is fine. It should not be hard to support 0 for
legacy and !0 for DT.
> Since I do not have any hwirq at 0 so far, is it a big deal to keep the
> base_irq at 0 for the moment?
> It will be easier to transition to DT that way without breaking the
> existing drivers.
As long as it is trivial to change later. I'm afraid that if it is not
changed, then we won't know if it is trivial.
Rob
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