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The Global Interrupt Controller (GIC) present on certain MIPS systems
can be used to route external interrupts to individual VPEs and CPU
interrupt vectors.  It also supports a timer and software-generated
interrupts.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org>
Cc: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>
Cc: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@imgtec.com>
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/8420/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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MIPS Global Interrupt Controller (GIC)

The MIPS GIC routes external interrupts to individual VPEs and IRQ pins.
It also supports local (per-processor) interrupts and software-generated
interrupts which can be used as IPIs. The GIC also includes a free-running
global timer, per-CPU count/compare timers, and a watchdog.

Required properties:
- compatible : Should be "mti,gic".
- interrupt-controller : Identifies the node as an interrupt controller
- #interrupt-cells : Specifies the number of cells needed to encode an
interrupt specifier. Should be 3.
- The first cell is the type of interrupt, local or shared.
See <include/dt-bindings/interrupt-controller/mips-gic.h>.
- The second cell is the GIC interrupt number.
- The third cell encodes the interrupt flags.
See <include/dt-bindings/interrupt-controller/irq.h> for a list of valid
flags.

Optional properties:
- reg : Base address and length of the GIC registers. If not present,
the base address reported by the hardware GCR_GIC_BASE will be used.
- mti,reserved-cpu-vectors : Specifies the list of CPU interrupt vectors
to which the GIC may not route interrupts. Valid values are 2 - 7.
This property is ignored if the CPU is started in EIC mode.

Required properties for timer sub-node:
- compatible : Should be "mti,gic-timer".
- interrupts : Interrupt for the GIC local timer.
- clock-frequency : Clock frequency at which the GIC timers operate.

Example:

gic: interrupt-controller@1bdc0000 {
compatible = "mti,gic";
reg = <0x1bdc0000 0x20000>;

interrupt-controller;
#interrupt-cells = <3>;

mti,reserved-cpu-vectors = <7>;

timer {
compatible = "mti,gic-timer";
interrupts = <GIC_LOCAL 1 IRQ_TYPE_NONE>;
clock-frequency = <50000000>;
};
};

uart@18101400 {
...
interrupt-parent = <&gic>;
interrupts = <GIC_SHARED 24 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
...
};
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#ifndef _DT_BINDINGS_INTERRUPT_CONTROLLER_MIPS_GIC_H
#define _DT_BINDINGS_INTERRUPT_CONTROLLER_MIPS_GIC_H

#include <dt-bindings/interrupt-controller/irq.h>

#define GIC_SHARED 0
#define GIC_LOCAL 1

#endif

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