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SubjectRe: [PATCH 13/36] dt-bindings: arm: Convert PMU binding to json-schema
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On 08/11/2018 15:59, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm jumping into the discussion, but I clearly don't have all the
> context of the discussion.
>
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 15:54:31 +0000, Robin Murphy wrote:
>
>>>> This seems like a semantic different between the two representations, or am
>>>> I missing something here? Specifically, both the introduction of
>>>> interrupts-extended and also dropping any mention of using a single per-cpu
>>>> interrupt (the single combined case is no longer support by Linux; not sure
>>>> if you want to keep it in the binding).
>>>
>>> In regards to no support for the single combined interrupt, it looks
>>> like Marvell Armada SoCs at least (armada-375 is what I'm looking at)
>>> have only a single interrupt. Though the interrupt gets routed to MPIC
>>> which then has a GIC PPI. So it isn't supported or happens to work
>>> still since it is a PPI?
>>
>> Well, the description of the MPIC in the Armada XP functional spec says:
>>
>> "Interrupt sources ID0–ID28 are private events per CPU. Thus, each
>> processor has a different set of events map interrupts ID0–ID28."
>>
>> Odd grammar aside, that would seem to imply that <&mpic 3> is a per-cpu
>> interrupt itself, thus AFAICS so long as it's cascaded to a GIC PPI and
>> not an SPI then there's no issue there.
>
> The Armada XP does not have a GIC at all, but only a MPIC as the
> primary interrupt controller.
>
> However the Armada 38x has both a GIC and a MPIC, and indeed the parent
> interrupts of the MPIC towards the GIC is:
>
> interrupts = <GIC_PPI 15 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;

Yeah, perhaps I should have clarified that the XP manual was the only
publicly-available one I could find, but I'm inferring from the binding
and driver that the MPIC in 375/38x still behaves the same.

Robin.

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