On Sat, 2012-02-04 at 22:17 +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 02:35:54PM -0700, Grant Likely wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > > > This patch series is ready for much wider consumption now. I'd like > > to get it into linux-next ASAP because there will be ARM board support > > depending on it. I'll wait a few days before I ask Stephen to pull > > this in. > > Grant, > > Can you answer me this: does this irqdomain support require DT?
The original powerpc code this is based on didn't require it. It was an explicit design decision and I remember insisting that Grant follows it, but I haven't yet reviewed his last batch. DT is orthogonal. You have "helpers" that use the DT to resolve the domain of an interrupt source and do the mapping for you, but I made sure that you call always still create domains and map interrupts using explicit domain pointers & hw numbers. (And I need them to deal with ancient broken device-tree's on some platforms such as oldworld PowerMacs). > The question comes up because OMAP has converted some of their support > to require irq domain support for their PMICs, and it seems irq domain > support requires DT. This seems to have made the whole of OMAP > essentially become a DT-only platform. .../... > Now, here's the thing: I believe that IRQ domains - at least as far as > the hwirq stuff - should be available irrespective of whether we have > the rest of the IRQ domain support code in place, so that IRQ support > code doesn't have to keep playing games to decode from the global > space to the per-controller number space. > > I believe that would certainly help the current OMAP problems, where > the current lack of CONFIG_IRQ_DOMAIN basically makes the kernel oops > on boot. > > How we fix this regression for 3.4 I've no idea at present, I'm trying > to work out what the real dependencies are for OMAP on this stuff. > > Finally, do we need asm/irq.h in our asm/prom.h ? That's causing > fragility between DT and non-DT builds, because people are finding > that their DT builds work without their mach/irqs.h includes but > fail when built with non-DT. The only thing which DT might need - > at the most - is NR_IRQS, but I'd hope with things like irq domains > it doesn't actually require it. Cheers, Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
