diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-riscv-intc.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-riscv-intc.c
index 4adeee1bc391f..e8d01b14ccdde 100644
--- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-riscv-intc.c
+++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-riscv-intc.c
@@ -155,8 +155,16 @@ static int __init riscv_intc_init(struct device_node *node,
 	 * for each INTC DT node. We only need to do INTC initialization
 	 * for the INTC DT node belonging to boot CPU (or boot HART).
 	 */
-	if (riscv_hartid_to_cpuid(hartid) != smp_processor_id())
+	if (riscv_hartid_to_cpuid(hartid) != smp_processor_id()) {
+		/*
+		 * The INTC nodes of each CPU are suppliers for downstream
+		 * interrupt controllers (such as PLIC, IMSIC and APLIC
+		 * direct-mode) so we should mark an INTC node as initialized
+		 * if we are not creating IRQ domain for it.
+		 */
+		fwnode_dev_initialized(of_fwnode_handle(node), true);
 		return 0;
+	}
 
 	return riscv_intc_init_common(of_node_to_fwnode(node));
 }