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Date:	Fri, 13 Mar 2015 12:48:01 +0800
From:	Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...aro.org>
To:	Stefan Agner <stefan@...er.ch>
Cc:	tglx@...utronix.de, jason@...edaemon.net, mark.rutland@....com,
	marc.zyngier@....com, u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de,
	kernel@...gutronix.de, arnd@...db.de, robh+dt@...nel.org,
	pawel.moll@....com, ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk,
	galak@...eaurora.org, pebolle@...cali.nl, linux@....linux.org.uk,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 3/3] ARM: dts: vf610: add Miscellaneous System Control
 Module (MSCM)

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:03:08AM +0100, Stefan Agner wrote:
> On 2015-03-11 01:48, Shawn Guo wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 11:41:29PM +0100, Stefan Agner wrote:
> >> Add the Miscellaneous System Control Module (MSCM) to the base
> >> device tree for Vybrid SoC's. This module contains registers
> >> to get information of the individual and current (accessing)
> >> CPU. In a second block, there is an interrupt router, which
> >> handles the routing of the interrupts between the two CPU cores
> >> on VF6xx variants of the SoC. However, also on single core
> >> variants the interrupt router needs to be configured in order
> >> to receive interrupts on the CPU's interrupt controller. Almost
> >> all peripheral interrupts are routed through the router, hence
> >> the MSCM module is the default interrupt parent for this SoC.
> >>
> >> In a earlier commit the interrupt nodes were moved out of the
> >> peripheral nodes and specified in the CPU specific vf500.dtsi
> >> device tree. This allowed to use the base device tree vfxxx.dtsi
> >> also for a Cortex-M4 specific device tree, which uses different
> >> interrupt nodes due to the NVIC interrupt controller. However,
> >> since the interrupt parent for peripherals is the MSCM module
> >> independently which CPU the device tree is used for, we can move
> >> the interrupt nodes into the base device tree vfxxx.dtsi again.
> >> Depending on which CPU this base device tree will be used with,
> >> the correct parent interrupt controller has to be assigned to
> >> the MSCM-IR node (GIC or NVIC). The driver takes care of the
> >> parent interrupt controller specific needs (interrupt-cells).
> >>
> >> Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@...er.ch>
> > 
> > Stefan,
> > 
> > I guess this patch has a run-time dependency on the first two in the
> > series, right?  Or put it another way, if I apply this single patch on
> > my branch, the dtb and kernel built from the same branch do not work
> > together, right?  If so, we will need to either wait for the first two
> > hit mainline or pull Jason's irqchip/vybrid branch into my tree as
> > prerequisite (irqchip/vybrid needs to be stable).
> > 
> > Shawn
> 
> Yes, that is true. The driver need to be in place in order to
> successfully boot with the new device tree.

Okay.  Pulled Jason's irqchip/vybrid branch in, and applied the patch.

Stefan,

There was a conflict on device dspi1 when applying the patch to my
imx/dt branch.  Please take a look to see if I solved it correctly.

Shawn
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