Devicetree/Interrupts problem

Hopefully someone can explain to me what is going wrong with this irq implementation.

I am trying to convert the irq.c from arch-vt8500 to enable multiplatform support but have run into a problem I don't quite understand.

In arch-vt8500/irq.c I have:

vt8500_irq_domain = irq_domain_add_linear(node, 64, &vt8500_irq_domain_ops, priv);

for (i=0; i<17; i++) {
		irq = irq_create_mapping(vt8500_irq_domain, i);
		printk("%s: create_mapping returned %d for i=%d\n", __func__, irq, i);
		BUGON(i <= 0);
		irq_set_chip_and_handler(irq, &vt8500_irq_chip, handle_level_irq);
		set_irq_flags(irq, IRQF_VALID | IRQF_PROBE);
}

I am (if I understand it correctly) creating mappings from hwirq to linux irq numbers. This code is run twice (two interrupt controllers).

The printk spews out a bunch of messages basically indicating that hwirq(d) was mapped to virq(d+1). virq(0) is invalid I believe so this all makes sense.

The problem occurs when I set 'i<18' or greater in the for-loop. (It should be 64 eventually).

When the combined total is >=36 it causes a problem with the timer (which is on hwirq=36 of the first controller).

in arch-vt8500/timer.c:
timer_irq = irq_of_parse_and_map(np, 0);
...
if (setup_irq(timer_irq, &irq))

		pr_err("%s: setup_irq failed for %s\n", __func__,
							clockevent.name);

timer_irq = 36, which seems to be causing the problem - while trying to initialize the timer it gives the 'setup_irq failed for ...", the timer doesn't get setup and the kernel freezes during boot.

If I create a mapping for hwirq=36 before running the for-loop, it maps hwirq=36 to virq=36, and everything is happy. It seems that if hwirq! =virq that it causes problems. Same thing happens for every other irq-generating device.

I guess it must be something obvious - anything jump out to anyone?

Regards
Tony P