Re: [RFC PATCH v1] irqchip: add support for SMP irq router

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Jul 05 2016 - 15:27:11 EST


On Tue, 5 Jul 2016, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 05/07/16 17:59, Sebastian Frias wrote:
> > Well, if you the domains should not be described in the DT and that they should
> > be somehow hardcoded into the drivers' code, it should not be hard indeed.
>
> Hardcoded? No way. You simply implement a route allocator in your
> driver, assigning them as needed. And yes, if you have more than 24
> interrupts, they get muxed.

There is one caveat though. Under some circumstances (think RT) you want to
configure which interrupts get muxed and which not. We really should have that
option, but yes for anything which has less than 24 autorouting is the way to
go.

Thanks,

tglx