Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] irqchip: RISC-V Local Interrupt Controller Driver

[Anup Patel]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 7:44 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 10:08:58PM +0530, Anup Patel wrote:
> > > They could in theory IFF someone actually get the use case through
> > > the riscv privileged spec working group.
> >
> > Their is no point in having each and every possible local interrupts
> > defined by RISC-V spec because some of these will be CPU
> > implementation specific in which case these local interrupts will
> > be described in platform specific DT passed to Linux.
>
> Again, to legally have implementation specific local interrupt types
> you'll first need to convice the spec to change the status for those
> fields from reserved to implementation specific.

I agree, this needs to be first clarified in RISC-V spec. May be this is
a good topic for discussion in any upcoming RISC-V meetup.

Until then anyone can try these patches from riscv_intc_v2 branch of
https://github.com/avpatel/linux

Regards,
Anup