linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: cherryview: Do not mask all interrupts on probe

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Message-ID: <20160914151234.GZ1811@lahna.fi.intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 14 Sep 2016 18:12:34 +0300
From:   Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc:     Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Phidias Chiang <phidias.chiang@...onical.com>,
        Anisse Astier <anisse@...ier.eu>,
        Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Yu C Chen <yu.c.chen@...el.com>,
        "linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: cherryview: Do not mask all interrupts on probe

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 02:46:01PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > I'm going to re-read the hardware spec and see if there is anything we
> > can do about this. The newer hardware (Skylake, Broxton) has a bit that
> > tells the IRQ is routed directly to I/O-APIC but unfortunately Braswell
> > misses that. There may be something else, though.
> 
> So as far as we can determine:
> 
> (A) we are running on Braswell and
> (B) we are probing this driver
> 
> we can conclude that
> 
> (C) IRQs A,B,C are reserved by BIOS?
> 
> That sounds doable?

Yes, it's doable but that requires some hard coding in the driver :-/

I'll look into it.