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SubjectRe: [PATCH V15 00/15] irqchip: Add LoongArch-related irqchip drivers
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On 2022/7/18 下午2:39, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jul 2022 02:07:21 +0100,
> Jianmin Lv <lvjianmin@loongson.cn> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2022/7/17 下午10:49, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>> On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 12:29:05 +0100,
>>> Jianmin Lv <lvjianmin@loongson.cn> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2022/7/17 下午6:02, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>>>> But the other issue is that you seem to call this function from two
>>>>> different locations. This cannot be right, as there should be only one
>>>>> probe order, and not multiple.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> As we described two IRQ models(Legacy and Extended) in this cover
>>>> letter, the parent domain of MSI domain can be htvec domain(Legacy) or
>>>> eiointc domain(Extended). In MADT, only one APIC(HTPIC for htvec or
>>>> EIOPIC for eiointc) is allowed to pass into kernel, and then in the
>>>> irqchip driver, only one kind APIC of them can be parsed from MADT, so
>>>> we have to support two probe order for them.
>>>
>>> Do you really have the two variants in the wild? Or is this just
>>> because this is a possibility?
>>>
>>
>> Currently, there are not CPUs(used for PC and server) based on
>> LoongArch shipped with only HTPIC, but with both HTPIC and EIOPIC, we
>> just want to provide two choices for designers(but obviously, EIOPIC
>> may be enough currently). Do you think we don't have to do like this,
>> yes? If so, maybe we don't have to support ACPI-way entry for htvec
>> currently, and do the work in future if required.
>
> If the existing HW is only following the 'Extended' model, then I'd
> suggest you only support this for now. It has two effects:
>
> - it simplifies the current code, making it more maintainable and
> easier to reason about
>
> - it sends the message to integrators that 'Extended' is the correct
> model, and that it is what they should support
>
> Now, we don't have much time left to get this series into -next (I
> will be closing the tree to new features this week, and only queue
> fixes).
>
> So whatever you need to do, please do it quickly so that we can have
> at least some of this in 5.20.
>
> Thanks,
>
> M.
>

Ok, Marc, thanks for your suggestion, got it, I'll remove 'Legacy' mode
support and send next version as soon as possible.

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