1 Broadcom BCM7120-style Level 2 interrupt controller
3 This interrupt controller hardware is a second level interrupt controller that
4 is hooked to a parent interrupt controller: e.g: ARM GIC for ARM-based
5 platforms. It can be found on BCM7xxx products starting with BCM7120.
7 Such an interrupt controller has the following hardware design:
9 - outputs multiple interrupts signals towards its interrupt controller parent
11 - controls how some of the interrupts will be flowing, whether they will
12 directly output an interrupt signal towards the interrupt controller parent,
13 or if they will output an interrupt signal at this 2nd level interrupt
14 controller, in particular for UARTs
16 - has one 32-bit enable word and one 32-bit status word
18 - no atomic set/clear operations
20 - not all bits within the interrupt controller actually map to an interrupt
22 The typical hardware layout for this controller is represented below:
24 2nd level interrupt line Outputs for the parent controller (e.g: ARM GIC)
26 0 -----[ MUX ] ------------|==========> GIC interrupt 75
29 1 -----[ MUX ] --------)---|==========> GIC interrupt 76
32 2 -----[ MUX ] --------)---|==========> GIC interrupt 77
35 3 ---------------------|
36 4 ---------------------|
37 5 ---------------------|
38 7 ---------------------|---|===========> GIC interrupt 66
39 9 ---------------------|
40 10 --------------------|
41 11 --------------------/
43 6 ------------------------\
44 |===========> GIC interrupt 64
45 8 ------------------------/
47 12 ........................ X
48 13 ........................ X (not connected)
50 31 ........................ X
54 - compatible: should be "brcm,bcm7120-l2-intc"
55 - reg: specifies the base physical address and size of the registers
56 - interrupt-controller: identifies the node as an interrupt controller
57 - #interrupt-cells: specifies the number of cells needed to encode an interrupt
59 - interrupt-parent: specifies the phandle to the parent interrupt controller
60 this one is cascaded from
61 - interrupts: specifies the interrupt line(s) in the interrupt-parent controller
62 node, valid values depend on the type of parent interrupt controller
63 - brcm,int-map-mask: 32-bits bit mask describing how many and which interrupts
64 are wired to this 2nd level interrupt controller, and how they match their
65 respective interrupt parents. Should match exactly the number of interrupts
66 specified in the 'interrupts' property.
70 - brcm,irq-can-wake: if present, this means the L2 controller can be used as a
71 wakeup source for system suspend/resume.
73 - brcm,int-fwd-mask: if present, a bit mask to configure the interrupts which
74 have a mux gate, typically UARTs. Setting these bits will make their
75 respective interrupt outputs bypass this 2nd level interrupt controller
76 completely; it is completely transparent for the interrupt controller
77 parent. This should have one 32-bit word per enable/status pair.
81 irq0_intc: interrupt-controller@f0406800 {
82 compatible = "brcm,bcm7120-l2-intc";
83 interrupt-parent = <&intc>;
84 #interrupt-cells = <1>;
85 reg = <0xf0406800 0x8>;
87 interrupts = <0x0 0x42 0x0>, <0x0 0x40 0x0>;
88 brcm,int-map-mask = <0xeb8>, <0x140>;
89 brcm,int-fwd-mask = <0x7>;