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From: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
To: "Jorge Ramirez Ortiz, HCL Europe" <Jorge.Ramirez-Ortiz@hcl.com>
Cc: "xenomai@xenomai.org" <xenomai@xenomai.org>
Subject: Re: [Xenomai] Edge interrupts on PCI drivers
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:00:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50057E14.3080904@grandegger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F534D1A615F544D95E57BFD8460658301CBE3D1@GEO-HCLT-UKEVS1.GEO.CORP.HCL.IN>

On 07/17/2012 04:57 PM, Jorge Ramirez Ortiz, HCL Europe wrote:
> Typical PCI devices have many sources of interrupts (some level, some edge triggered) normally all routed through PIN A.

AFAIC, PCI interrupts are *always* level sensitive.

> When writing an RTDM pci driver for one of these devices, how does the microkernel manage the edge interrupts? 
> 
> I am looking at some traces where the CPU seems to be interrupted continuously by an edge interrupt until the actual condition that causes it is cleared.

That's normal for level sensitive interrupt sources.

Wolfgang.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-17 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-17 14:57 [Xenomai] Edge interrupts on PCI drivers Jorge Ramirez Ortiz,  HCL Europe
2012-07-17 15:00 ` Wolfgang Grandegger [this message]
2012-07-17 15:02   ` Jan Kiszka
2012-07-17 15:16     ` Jorge Ramirez Ortiz,  HCL Europe

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