Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 7/7] irqchip/apple-aic: add SMP support to the Apple AIC driver. | From | Mohamed Mediouni <> | Date | Thu, 21 Jan 2021 16:18:53 +0100 |
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> On 21 Jan 2021, at 16:09, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 3:10 PM Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> wrote: >> On 2021-01-21 13:34, Mohamed Mediouni wrote: >>>> On 21 Jan 2021, at 14:22, Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> wrote: >>> Because UART access adapters for the new M1 Macs aren’t plentiful >>> at all, I actually use this for development, with iPhones which have >>> much more easy to buy Lightning-to-UART adapters. >>> >>> (That’s why the old implementation is there too) >>> >>> Might be worth splitting the new one to a new commit though... >> >> This series is supposed to cover M1 only, and adding extra support >> as part of it is only likely to make the code harder to review. >> >> I'd rather you focus on a single IPI interface (fast or slow, >> I don't really care). Extra features can come in later. > > Agreed. The slow interface is probably easier to start with, > because it avoids hooking into the FIQ, so the FIQ can be > completely decoupled from AIC and just used for the timer. > > Maybe there is even a way to use more than one hardware IPI in > the AIC? > > Arnd Hello,
Decided to only have only the slow interface in the second patch series.
Thank you,
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