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+RISC-V Hart-Level Interrupt Controller (HLIC)
+---------------------------------------------
+
+RISC-V cores include Control Status Registers (CSRs) which are local to each
+CPU core (HART in RISC-V terminology) and can be read or written by software.
+Some of these CSRs are used to control local interrupts connected to the core.
+Every interrupt is ultimately routed through a hart's HLIC before it
+interrupts that hart.
+
+The RISC-V supervisor ISA manual specifies three interrupt sources that are
+attached to every HLIC: software interrupts, the timer interrupt, and external
+interrupts.  Software interrupts are used to send IPIs between cores.  The
+timer interrupt comes from an architecturally mandated real-time timer that is
+controlled via Supervisor Binary Interface (SBI) calls and CSR reads.  External
+interrupts connect all other device interrupts to the HLIC, which are routed
+via the platform-level interrupt controller (PLIC).
+
+All RISC-V systems that conform to the supervisor ISA specification are
+required to have a HLIC with these three interrupt sources present.  Since the
+interrupt map is defined by the ISA it's not listed in the HLIC's device tree
+entry, though external interrupt controllers (like the PLIC, for example) will
+need to define how their interrupts map to the relevant HLICs.  This means
+a PLIC interrupt property will typically list the HLICs for all present HARTs
+in the system.
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible : "riscv,cpu-intc"
+- #interrupt-cells : should be <1>.  The interrupt sources are defined by the
+  RISC-V supervisor ISA manual, with only the following three interrupts being
+  defined for supervisor mode:
+    - Source 1 is the supervisor software interrupt, which can be sent by an SBI
+      call and is reserved for use by software.
+    - Source 5 is the supervisor timer interrupt, which can be configured by
+      SBI calls and implements a one-shot timer.
+    - Source 9 is the supervisor external interrupt, which chains to all other
+      device interrupts.
+- interrupt-controller : Identifies the node as an interrupt controller
+
+Furthermore, this interrupt-controller MUST be embedded inside the cpu
+definition of the hart whose CSRs control these local interrupts.
+
+An example device tree entry for a HLIC is show below.
+
+	cpu1: cpu@1 {
+		compatible = "riscv";
+		...
+		cpu1-intc: interrupt-controller {
+			#interrupt-cells = <1>;
+			compatible = "sifive,fu540-c000-cpu-intc", "riscv,cpu-intc";
+			interrupt-controller;
+		};
+	};