SiFive Platform-Level Interrupt Controller (PLIC) ------------------------------------------------- SiFive SOCs include an implementation of the Platform-Level Interrupt Controller (PLIC) high-level specification in the RISC-V Privileged Architecture specification. The PLIC connects all external interrupts in the system to all hart contexts in the system, via the external interrupt source in each hart. A hart context is a privilege mode in a hardware execution thread. For example, in an 4 core system with 2-way SMT, you have 8 harts and probably at least two privilege modes per hart; machine mode and supervisor mode. Each interrupt can be enabled on per-context basis. Any context can claim a pending enabled interrupt and then release it once it has been handled. Each interrupt has a configurable priority. Higher priority interrupts are serviced first. Each context can specify a priority threshold. Interrupts with priority below this threshold will not cause the PLIC to raise its interrupt line leading to the context. While the PLIC supports both edge-triggered and level-triggered interrupts, interrupt handlers are oblivious to this distinction and therefore it is not specified in the PLIC device-tree binding. While the RISC-V ISA doesn't specify a memory layout for the PLIC, the "sifive,plic-1.0.0" device is a concrete implementation of the PLIC that contains a specific memory layout, which is documented in chapter 8 of the SiFive U5 Coreplex Series Manual . Required properties: - compatible : "sifive,plic-1.0.0" and a string identifying the actual detailed implementation in case that specific bugs need to be worked around. - #address-cells : should be <0> or more. - #interrupt-cells : should be <1> or more. - interrupt-controller : Identifies the node as an interrupt controller. - reg : Should contain 1 register range (address and length). - interrupts-extended : Specifies which contexts are connected to the PLIC, with "-1" specifying that a context is not present. Each node pointed to should be a riscv,cpu-intc node, which has a riscv node as parent. - riscv,ndev: Specifies how many external interrupts are supported by this controller. Example: plic: interrupt-controller@c000000 { #address-cells = <0>; #interrupt-cells = <1>; compatible = "sifive,plic-1.0.0", "sifive,fu540-c000-plic"; interrupt-controller; interrupts-extended = < &cpu0-intc 11 &cpu1-intc 11 &cpu1-intc 9 &cpu2-intc 11 &cpu2-intc 9 &cpu3-intc 11 &cpu3-intc 9 &cpu4-intc 11 &cpu4-intc 9>; reg = <0xc000000 0x4000000>; riscv,ndev = <10>; };