Re: [PATCH 05/10] dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: sunxi-nmi: Add compatible for A31 R_INTC

From: Rob Herring
Date: Fri Jun 09 2017 - 09:25:16 EST


On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 01:59:27PM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> The A31 and later have an R_INTC block which handles the NMI interrupt
> pin on the SoC. This interrupt pin is used by the external PMIC to
> signal interrupts to the SoC.
>
> While this hardware block is undocumented, the interrupt offsets
> combined with the register regions for the existing "sun6i-a31-sc-nmi"
> compatible line up with the old interrupt controller found on the A10.
> Experiments show that only the first 32 interrupt lines can be enabled,
> and only the first (NMI) interrupt is actually connected.
>
> This patch adds a new, properly named compatible for the A31 R_INTC
> block, which requires the register region to be properly aligned to
> the block boundary. For comparison, the old "sun6i-a31-sc-nmi"
> compatible had its register region aligned with the first used
> register. This didn't match up with the memory map in the SoC's
> datasheet/user manual.
>
> Since the new compatible supercedes the old one, deprecate the old one.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> .../bindings/interrupt-controller/allwinner,sunxi-nmi.txt | 7 +++++--
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>