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. Optional properties for timer sub-node: - clocks : GIC timer operating clock. - clock-frequency : Clock frequency at which the GIC timers operate. Note that one of clocks or clock-frequency must be specified. 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>; ... };