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Rob Herringb3f7ed02011-09-28 21:27:52 -05001* ARM Generic Interrupt Controller
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3ARM SMP cores are often associated with a GIC, providing per processor
4interrupts (PPI), shared processor interrupts (SPI) and software
5generated interrupts (SGI).
6
7Primary GIC is attached directly to the CPU and typically has PPIs and SGIs.
8Secondary GICs are cascaded into the upward interrupt controller and do not
9have PPIs or SGIs.
10
11Main node required properties:
12
13- compatible : should be one of:
Marc Zyngier0a682142012-05-09 18:57:57 +010014 "arm,cortex-a15-gic"
Rob Herringb3f7ed02011-09-28 21:27:52 -050015 "arm,cortex-a9-gic"
Marc Zyngier0a682142012-05-09 18:57:57 +010016 "arm,cortex-a7-gic"
Rob Herringb3f7ed02011-09-28 21:27:52 -050017 "arm,arm11mp-gic"
18- interrupt-controller : Identifies the node as an interrupt controller
19- #interrupt-cells : Specifies the number of cells needed to encode an
20 interrupt source. The type shall be a <u32> and the value shall be 3.
21
22 The 1st cell is the interrupt type; 0 for SPI interrupts, 1 for PPI
23 interrupts.
24
25 The 2nd cell contains the interrupt number for the interrupt type.
26 SPI interrupts are in the range [0-987]. PPI interrupts are in the
27 range [0-15].
28
29 The 3rd cell is the flags, encoded as follows:
30 bits[3:0] trigger type and level flags.
31 1 = low-to-high edge triggered
32 2 = high-to-low edge triggered
33 4 = active high level-sensitive
34 8 = active low level-sensitive
35 bits[15:8] PPI interrupt cpu mask. Each bit corresponds to each of
36 the 8 possible cpus attached to the GIC. A bit set to '1' indicated
37 the interrupt is wired to that CPU. Only valid for PPI interrupts.
38
39- reg : Specifies base physical address(s) and size of the GIC registers. The
40 first region is the GIC distributor register base and size. The 2nd region is
41 the GIC cpu interface register base and size.
42
43Optional
Marc Zyngier0a682142012-05-09 18:57:57 +010044- interrupts : Interrupt source of the parent interrupt controller on
45 secondary GICs, or VGIC maintainance interrupt on primary GIC (see
46 below).
Rob Herringb3f7ed02011-09-28 21:27:52 -050047
Marc Zyngierdb0d4db2011-11-12 16:09:49 +000048- cpu-offset : per-cpu offset within the distributor and cpu interface
49 regions, used when the GIC doesn't have banked registers. The offset is
50 cpu-offset * cpu-nr.
51
Rob Herringb3f7ed02011-09-28 21:27:52 -050052Example:
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54 intc: interrupt-controller@fff11000 {
55 compatible = "arm,cortex-a9-gic";
56 #interrupt-cells = <3>;
57 #address-cells = <1>;
58 interrupt-controller;
59 reg = <0xfff11000 0x1000>,
60 <0xfff10100 0x100>;
61 };
62
Marc Zyngier0a682142012-05-09 18:57:57 +010063
64* GIC virtualization extensions (VGIC)
65
66For ARM cores that support the virtualization extensions, additional
67properties must be described (they only exist if the GIC is the
68primary interrupt controller).
69
70Required properties:
71
72- reg : Additional regions specifying the base physical address and
73 size of the VGIC registers. The first additional region is the GIC
74 virtual interface control register base and size. The 2nd additional
75 region is the GIC virtual cpu interface register base and size.
76
77- interrupts : VGIC maintainance interrupt.
78
79Example:
80
81 interrupt-controller@2c001000 {
82 compatible = "arm,cortex-a15-gic";
83 #interrupt-cells = <3>;
84 interrupt-controller;
85 reg = <0x2c001000 0x1000>,
86 <0x2c002000 0x1000>,
87 <0x2c004000 0x2000>,
88 <0x2c006000 0x2000>;
89 interrupts = <1 9 0xf04>;
90 };