Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:33:01 +0100 | From | Russell King - ARM Linux <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/5] ARM: gic: add OF based initialization |
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On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 11:47:18AM +0200, Cousson, Benoit wrote: > Since the cpumask is not relevant for the SPI, maybe having two > interrupt controllers will be more relevant. Or maybe 3, since there is > some SGIs as well.
I don't think anyone uses SGIs outside of the common SMP code. Therefore they're handled entirely separately for the root GIC.
(If there's two GICs - some platforms do have two - then the SGIs on the non-root GIC are unused.)
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