The latest Linux RISC-V no longer boots on the Allwinner D1 platform
because the sun4i_timer driver fails to get an interrupt from PLIC due to
the recent conversion of the PLIC to a platform driver. Converting the
sun4i timer to a platform driver does not work either because the D1 does
not have a SBI timer available so early boot hangs. See the 'Closes:'
link for deeper analysis.
The real fix requires enabling the SBI time extension in the platform
firmware (OpenSBI) and convert sun4i_timer into platform driver.
Unfortunately, the real fix involves changing multiple places and can't be
achieved in a short duration and aside of that requires users to update
firmware.
As a work-around, retrofit PLIC probing such that the PLIC is probed early
only for the Allwinner D1 platform and probed as a regular platform driver
for rest of the RISC-V platforms. In the process, partially revert some of
the previous changes because the PLIC device pointer is not available in
all probing paths.
Fixes: e306a894bd51 ("irqchip/sifive-plic: Chain to parent IRQ after handlers are ready")
Fixes: 8ec99b033147 ("irqchip/sifive-plic: Convert PLIC driver into a platform driver")
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <apatel@ventanamicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@sifive.com>
Tested-by: Emil Renner Berthing <emil.renner.berthing@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@sifive.com>
Reviewed-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240820034850.3189912-1-apatel@ventanamicro.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240814145642.344485-1-emil.renner.berthing@canonical.com/
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