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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 1/6] DRIVERS: IRQCHIP: IRQ-GIC: Add support for routable irqs
On 30/09/13 14:59, Sricharan R wrote:
> In some socs the gic can be preceded by a crossbar IP which
> routes the peripheral interrupts to the gic inputs. The peripheral
> interrupts are associated with a fixed crossbar input line and the
> crossbar routes that to one of the free gic input line.
>
> The DT entries for peripherals provides the fixed crossbar input line
> as its interrupt number and the mapping code should associate this with
> a free gic input line. This patch adds the support inside the gic irqchip
> to handle such routable irqs. The routable irqs are registered in a linear
> domain. The registered routable domain's callback should be implemented
> to get a free irq and to configure the IP to route it.

Isn't this just another chained interrupt controller? How is it GIC
specific?

M.
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