Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Sep 2018 09:35:43 -0700 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] irqchip: RISC-V Local Interrupt Controller Driver |
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On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 10:02:09PM +0530, Anup Patel wrote: > You are thinking very much in-context of SiFive CPUs only.
No. I think in terms of the RISC-V spec. I could care less about SiFive to be honest.
> Lot of SOC vendors are trying to come-up with their own CPUs > and RISC-V spec does not restrict the use of local interrupts.
Yes, it does.
> The mie/mip/sie/sip/uie/uip are all machine word size so on > riscv64 we can theoretically have maximum 64 local interrupts.
They could in theory IFF someone actually get the use case through the riscv privileged spec working group.
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