From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:44:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relay01.mx.bawue.net ([193.7.176.67]:38335 "EHLO relay01.mx.bawue.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20022236AbXJ2Loo (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:44:44 +0000 Received: from lagash (intrt.mips-uk.com [194.74.144.130]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay01.mx.bawue.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6804048FB7; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:56:17 +0100 (CET) Received: from ths by lagash with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1ImT2M-0006i0-NR; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:44:06 +0000 Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:44:06 +0000 From: Thiemo Seufer To: Ralf Baechle Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Fix (workaround?) for BCM Bigsur Message-ID: <20071029114406.GB18384@networkno.de> References: <20071028202249.GC22287@networkno.de> <20071028204328.GB16898@linux-mips.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071028204328.GB16898@linux-mips.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 17282 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ths@networkno.de Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 08:22:49PM +0000, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > > the appended patchlet allows to boot current HEAD on a BCM1480. > > Without it the kernel dies in an unhandled interrupt loop. > > I think it's a bugfix. The whole {sb1250,bcm1250}_steal_irq() irq seems > to be a hack papering needed only to paper over other implementation > issues. FYI, I removed all the *_steal_irq stuff in my tree, the resulting kernel works fine on a BCM1480. Thiemo