DTS configuration of external interrupts on 8347

[Richard Whitlock]

Sean MacLennan wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:58:38 +0100
> "Richard Whitlock" <richard.whitlo at btconnect.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> I have a small problem with a port of linux 2.6.26 to a custom board.
>> Our board is almost identical to the Analogue & Micro asp 8347 board,
>> so I'm using Kumar Gala's excellent fsl tree (thank you Kumar) as it 
>> already has a defconfig for the asp.
>> Thanks also to Bryan O'Donoghue for pointing us in the direction of
>> the asp port in the first place.
>>
>> The problem we have is I am unable to request an external interrupt.
>> We have an FPGA which has an interrupt line - HW IRQ_0, so thats
>> linux IRQ 48. I have added the following to the dts file:
>>
>> fpgaKFAF at 0xF8000000 {
>>                 interrupts = <48 8>;
>>                 interrupt-parent = <&ipic>;
>> }
>>
>> but whenever I call request_irq() it returns -ENOSYS.
>>
>> The driver loads fine, and the open function does very little - a
>> call to ioremap() - which works, and a call to request_irq() which
>> does not. Is there anything else I have to do to configure this
>> interrupt?
>>     
>
> I don't think you have enough information in the dts. We do the same
> thing on the warp (you can look at the warp.dts):
>
> fpga at 2,0 {
> 	compatible = "pika,fpga";
> 	reg = <0x00000002 0x00000000 0x00001000>;
> 	interrupts = <0x18 0x8>;
> 	interrupt-parent = <&UIC0>;
> };
>
> You need the compatible, maybe "kfaf,fpga", and I believe the reg entry
> although you could try without it.
>
> You then can use:
>
> 	of_find_compatible_node
> 	irq_of_parse_and_map
> 	request_irq
>
> platforms/44x/warp.c shows an example using the ad7414. Just change the
> ad7414 string to your compatible string.
>
> Cheers,
>    Sean
>
>
>
>   
Sean,

Thanks for that - our original code had no call to irq_of_parse_and_map().
We've put that in, as well as a call to of_find_compatible_node(), and 
now everything works fine. We have also modified our dts file along the 
lines you suggested.
Cheers,


Richard.