| * SPEAr Shared IRQ layer (shirq) |
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| SPEAr3xx architecture includes shared/multiplexed irqs for certain set |
| of devices. The multiplexor provides a single interrupt to parent |
| interrupt controller (VIC) on behalf of a group of devices. |
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| There can be multiple groups available on SPEAr3xx variants but not |
| exceeding 4. The number of devices in a group can differ, further they |
| may share same set of status/mask registers spanning across different |
| bit masks. Also in some cases the group may not have enable or other |
| registers. This makes software little complex. |
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| A single node in the device tree is used to describe the shared |
| interrupt multiplexor (one node for all groups). A group in the |
| interrupt controller shares config/control registers with other groups. |
| For example, a 32-bit interrupt enable/disable config register can |
| accommodate up to 4 interrupt groups. |
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| Required properties: |
| - compatible: should be, either of |
| - "st,spear300-shirq" |
| - "st,spear310-shirq" |
| - "st,spear320-shirq" |
| - interrupt-controller: Identifies the node as an interrupt controller. |
| - #interrupt-cells: should be <1> which basically contains the offset |
| (starting from 0) of interrupts for all the groups. |
| - reg: Base address and size of shirq registers. |
| - interrupts: The list of interrupts generated by the groups which are |
| then connected to a parent interrupt controller. Each group is |
| associated with one of the interrupts, hence number of interrupts (to |
| parent) is equal to number of groups. The format of the interrupt |
| specifier depends in the interrupt parent controller. |
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| Optional properties: |
| - interrupt-parent: pHandle of the parent interrupt controller, if not |
| inherited from the parent node. |
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| Example: |
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| The following is an example from the SPEAr320 SoC dtsi file. |
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| shirq: interrupt-controller@0xb3000000 { |
| compatible = "st,spear320-shirq"; |
| reg = <0xb3000000 0x1000>; |
| interrupts = <28 29 30 1>; |
| #interrupt-cells = <1>; |
| interrupt-controller; |
| }; |