Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754500Ab3HMIKS (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Aug 2013 04:10:18 -0400 Received: from mho-03-ewr.mailhop.org ([204.13.248.66]:55282 "EHLO mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750929Ab3HMIKJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Aug 2013 04:10:09 -0400 X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Originating-IP: 50.131.214.131 X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX1/ET9G2ERaRQC6CsezgR7pR Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 01:10:03 -0700 From: Tony Lindgren To: Santosh Shilimkar Cc: Nishanth Menon , Sricharan R , Linus Walleij , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org" , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Linux-OMAP , Russell King - ARM Linux , Rajendra Nayak , Felipe Balbi , Thomas Gleixner , Grant Likely Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] misc: Add crossbar driver Message-ID: <20130813081003.GU7656@atomide.com> References: <51E83A4F.5080904@ti.com> <51ED2385.60108@ti.com> <51ED5C66.1010407@ti.com> <51EFFBE1.4090505@ti.com> <51F0031B.1050307@ti.com> <51F00530.9090703@ti.com> <51F02069.3050207@ti.com> <51F0223E.4050008@ti.com> <51F0240F.3050507@ti.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <51F0240F.3050507@ti.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2447 Lines: 43 * Santosh Shilimkar [130724 12:06]: > On Wednesday 24 July 2013 02:51 PM, Nishanth Menon wrote: > > On 07/24/2013 01:43 PM, Sricharan R wrote: > >> On Wednesday 24 July 2013 10:17 PM, Nishanth Menon wrote: > >>> On 07/24/2013 11:38 AM, Santosh Shilimkar wrote: > >>>> On Wednesday 24 July 2013 12:08 PM, Nishanth Menon wrote: > >>>>> That said, maybe a intermediate pinctrl approach might be more pragmatic and less theoretically flexible. > >>>>> an option might be to "statically allocate" default number of interrupts to a domain - example: > >>>>> * GIC IRQ 72->78 allotted to UARTs > >>>>> * pinctrl mapping provided for those but only 6 can be used (rest are marked status="disabled" as default) at any given time (choice of pinctrl option determines GIC interrupt line to use) > >>>>> * All modules will have a pinctrl definition to have a mapping - to avoid bootloader overriding default cross bar setting in ways un-expected by kernel. > >>>>> > >>>>> Does that sound fair trade off? > >>>> This sounds better. That way we can get all the devices in the DT at least. > >>> > >>> Fair enough - if Linus and Tony are still ok with this approach to the problem, seeing a patch series with the effect would be beneficial. > >>> > >> Ok, i will use this idea of certain number interrupts to groups. > >> Yes on DRA7XX, we have about 160 gic lines and 320 irq crossbar device inputs contending for it. > >> 1:2 and fully arbitrary. But will we be really exhausting them ? > >> > > Depends on how we allocate :). The default arbitary allocation can be made more logical in your series ofcourse :). > > > I would just most logical peripherals rather than providing every single > IP connected to cross bar. Otherwise we will end up wth hwmod like > scenario where now started removing the unused stuff because of > maintenance and loc issues ;-) Sorry for the delay on this, I think the best way to set this up is as a separate drivers/irqchip controller. Then just map the configured interrupts for the board with interrupt-map and interrupt-map-mask binding. No need to stuff all the SoC specific maps to the .dts, just the ones used for the board. Regards, Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/