Hi Thomas,
On Tuesday 17 September 2013 05:56 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> wrote:
>
>> So why can't you make use of irq domains and have the whole routing
>> business implemented sanely?
>>
>> What's needed is in gic_init_bases():
>> irq
>> if (of_property_read(node, "routable_irqs", &nr_routable_irqs) {
>> irq_domain_add_legacy(nr_gic_irqs);
>> } else {
>> irq_domain_add_legacy(nr_per_cpu_irqs);
>> irq_domain_add_linear(nr_routable_irqs);
>> }
>>
>> Now that separate domain has an xlate function which grabs a free GIC
>> irq from a bitmap and returns the hardware irq number in the gic
>> space. The map/unmap callbacks take care of setting up / tearing down
>> the route in the crossbar.
> This is obviously the right approach, it's exactly what .map should do
> the only special thing here being that we have hardware to perform
> the mapping ... bah why didn't I realize this :-(
>
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij
Thanks for the suggestion.
So as i understand this, this implies using the GIC domain itself and
add the support for dynamically routable irqs (like crossbar) with in the
GIC driver itself right ?
Regards,
Sricharan
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