Kernel-4.18.0-80.el8_arm,nvic

  • ARM Nested Vector Interrupt Controller (NVIC)

The NVIC provides an interrupt controller that is tightly coupled to
Cortex-M based processor cores. The NVIC implemented on different SoCs
vary in the number of interrupts and priority bits per interrupt.

Main node required properties:

  • compatible : should be one of:
    “arm,v6m-nvic”
    “arm,v7m-nvic”
    “arm,v8m-nvic”

  • interrupt-controller : Identifies the node as an interrupt controller

  • #interrupt-cells : Specifies the number of cells needed to encode an
    interrupt source. The type shall be a and the value shall be 2.

    The 1st cell contains the interrupt number for the interrupt type.

    The 2nd cell is the priority of the interrupt.

  • reg : Specifies base physical address(s) and size of the NVIC registers.
    This is at a fixed address (0xe000e100) and size (0xc00).

  • arm,num-irq-priority-bits: The number of priority bits implemented by the
    given SoC

Example:

intc: interrupt-controller@e000e100 {
    compatible = "arm,v7m-nvic";
    #interrupt-cells = <2>;
    #address-cells = <1>;
    interrupt-controller;
    reg = <0xe000e100 0xc00>;
    arm,num-irq-priority-bits = <4>;
};