[PATCH v2 2/4] dt-bindings: misc: Aspeed coprocessor interrupt controller
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Jun 19 16:58:54 AEST 2018
On Tue, 2018-06-19 at 16:26 +0930, Joel Stanley wrote:
> On 18 June 2018 at 14:29, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > Add the device-tree binding definition for the AST2400
> > and AST2500 coprocessor interrupt controller
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> > ---
> > .../devicetree/bindings/misc/aspeed,cvic.txt | 35 +++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)
> > create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/aspeed,cvic.txt
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/aspeed,cvic.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/aspeed,cvic.txt
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..2562e2991e4d
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/aspeed,cvic.txt
>
> Is there a reason you didn't put this in bindings/interrupt-controller?
Well, I don't call it interrupt-controller anymore, it's not an
interrupt controller for the main CPU so I decided to leave it out.
If you (or somebody) has strong feeling about it, I can call it
interrupt-controller again and move it back there :)
> Aside from that this looks good.
>
> > @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
> > +* Aspeed AST2400 and AST2500 coprocessor interrupt controller
> > +
> > +This file describes the bindings for the interrupt controller present
> > +in the AST2400 and AST2500 BMC SoCs which provides interrupt to the
> > +ColdFire coprocessor.
> > +
> > +It is not a normal interrupt controller and it would be rather
> > +inconvenient to create an interrupt tree for it as it somewhat shares
> > +some of the same sources as the main ARM interrupt controller but with
> > +different numbers.
> > +
> > +The AST2500 supports a SW generated interrupt
> > +
> > +Required properties:
> > +- reg: address and length of the register for the device.
> > +- compatible: "aspeed,cvic" and one of:
> > + "aspeed,ast2400-cvic"
> > + or
> > + "aspeed,ast2500-cvic"
> > +
> > +- valid-sources: One cell, bitmap of supported sources for the implementation
> > +
> > +Optional properties;
> > +- copro-sw-interrupts: List of interrupt numbers that can be used as
> > + SW interrupts from the ARM to the coprocessor.
> > + (AST2500 only)
> > +
> > +Example:
> > +
> > + cvic: copro-interrupt-controller at 1e6c2000 {
> > + compatible = "aspeed,ast2500-cvic";
> > + valid-sources = <0xffffffff>;
> > + copro-sw-interrupts = <1>;
> > + reg = <0x1e6c2000 0x80>;
> > + };
> > --
> > 2.17.1
> >
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