[U-Boot] [PATCH 14/15] RFC: x86: minnowmax: Add interrupt routing setup

Bin Meng bmeng.cn at gmail.com
Wed Jul 29 02:46:19 CEST 2015


Hi Simon,

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 8:42 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> Hi Bin,
>
> On 28 July 2015 at 18:40, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Simon,
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>>> Hi Bin,
>>>
>>> On 28 July 2015 at 01:50, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Simon,
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 5:47 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>>>> > At present minnowmax does not correct set up PCI interrupts. This should be
>>>> > done in U-Boot so that devices work correctly in Linux.
>>>> >
>>>> > Note: This code needs to make use of the recent pirq_routing work. It does
>>>> > not seem to support all the required features, so this RFC will hopefully
>>>>
>>>> What features are missing in the existing PIRQ codes? When I did the
>>>> PIRQ support, I checked both TunnelCreek and BayTrail chipset
>>>> datasheet, and found the only difference seems to be the pci
>>>> configuration space vs. memory-mapped IBASE where the pci irq routing
>>>> registers reside.
>>>
>>> I see that each PCI device can be assigned four routes, making up a
>>> 16-bit register. But the code I see in pirq_assign_req() only assigns
>>> a single one, using a byte register.
>>>
>>
>> No, the pci irq routing register is still a 8-bit register on
>> BayTrail, where pirq_assign_irq() programs. The 16-bit register you
>> mentioned should be done in the platform codes. See
>> arch/x86/cpu/queensbay/tnc.c::cpu_irq_init(). By the way actually we
>> can leave those register programmed as they have the optimized default
>> values for all pci devices after power up, unless we intentionally
>> want to change them.
>
> What do you mean by 'leave those register programmed'?
>

I mean their default value is normally OK, like INTA maps PIRQA, INTB
maps PIRQB, INTC maps PIRQC and INTD maps PIRQD.

Regards,
Bin


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