Question: The technical reference manual for the Cortex-A15 says that the GIC is memory mapped. That is, the core processors use memory mapped I/O to

The technical reference manual for the Cortex-A15 says that the GIC is memory mapped. That is, the core processors use memory mapped I/O to communicate with the GIC. Recall from Chapter 7 that with memory mapped I/O, there is a single address space for memory locations and I/O devices. The processor treats the status instructions to access both memory and I/O devices. Based on this information, what path through the block diagram below is used for the core processors to communicate with the GIC? Private bus Read/Write Decoder Core acknowledge and End Of Interrupt (EOI) information from CPU interface Top priority interrupts Priority Status Interrupt number Priority A15 Core 0 Interrupt number Priority A15 Core 1 Interrupt interface Prioritization and selection Interrupt number Priority A15 Core 2 Interrupt number Priority A15 Core 3 Interrupt list Generic Interrupt Controller Block Diagram IRQ request to each CPU interface
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