ARCH=ppc -> ARCH=powerpc : help needed for dts file

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Mar 6 07:14:28 EST 2008


On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 17:15 +0100, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> 
> I asked the guy who designed the hardware, and if I understand
> correctly :
> 
> - the i/o and memory resources of the pci device are connected to the
> pci bus
> - the interrupts are directly connected to the MPIC
> 
> Can I describe that in the dts file ?

Sure, you can describe pretty much any interrupt routing, provided that
we know -how- (ie. where) they are connected. We also need to know the
idsel of the devices. (The later we can deduce from lspci done in
arch/ppc).

Ben.

> Philippe
> 
> > 
> > Or are you doing some swizzling ?
> > 
> > Also, I would need to know how those external IRQs are connected to
> the MPIC,
> > I don't have the spec of that chip here. Hrm. Somebody from
> freescale can
> > help him here ?
> > 
> > It's also not clear to me what your interrupts 9 10 and 11 are since
> you
> > seem to only talk about PIRQA...D which is only 4 lines ..
> > 
> > So at this stage, that's not enough information. We need to know
> exactly how
> > you have wired things on your board, and somebody from fsl needs to
> tell
> > me how the ExtIrq are routed to the MPIC on that guy.
> > 
> > Once that's done, you seem to have grasped the interrupt map... for
> any
> > device or slot, you provide the mapping between idsel/pirq line on
> one side,
> > and mpic interrupt & sense on the other. For PCI, sense is always 1
> for an
> > mpic so you mostly have to check your actual MPIC source numbers.
> > 
> > >From your .dts, I see you've been doing some swizzling of slots
> using
> > interrupts 1...4 ... do that correspond to EXTIRQ 5....8 ?
> > 
> > Ben.
> > 
> > >  
> > >  /*
> ************************************************************************ */
> > >
> --- ./arch/ppc/platforms/85xx/mpc85xx_ads_common.hbk        2008-01-24
> 22:58:37.000000000 +0000
> > > +++ ./arch/ppc/platforms/85xx/mpc85xx_ads_common.h  2008-02-20
> 16:36:07.000000000 +0000
> > > @@ -29,10 +29,17 @@
> > >  extern void mpc85xx_ads_map_io(void) __init;
> > >  
> > >  /* PCI interrupt controller */
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_MEIP_8540
> > > +#define PIRQA              MPC85xx_IRQ_EXT5
> > > +#define PIRQB              MPC85xx_IRQ_EXT6
> > > +#define PIRQC              MPC85xx_IRQ_EXT7
> > > +#define PIRQD              MPC85xx_IRQ_EXT8
> > > +#else
> > >  #define PIRQA              MPC85xx_IRQ_EXT1
> > >  #define PIRQB              MPC85xx_IRQ_EXT2
> > >  #define PIRQC              MPC85xx_IRQ_EXT3
> > >  #define PIRQD              MPC85xx_IRQ_EXT4
> > > +#endif
> > >  
> > >  #define MPC85XX_PCI1_LOWER_IO      0x00000000
> > >  #define MPC85XX_PCI1_UPPER_IO      0x00ffffff
> 




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