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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
To: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: vagabon.xyz@gmail.com, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Is _do_IRQ() not needed anymore ?
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:34:53 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45704B9D.5090805@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45704A4D.9050303@ru.mvista.com>

Hello.

Sergei Shtylyov wrote:

>>>> You can use both irq_cpu and i8259 same time. :)

>>>    What's wrong with 8259 I wonder? It's happily converted to genirq 
>>> by other arches...

>> Indeed.  I missed other arch's i8259.c had changed.  Maybe we should
>> update i8259.c entirely.

>    The question is what flow to use: level/edge ones used in x86 code 
> and actually intended for simplistic controllers, not the likes of 8259 
> OR the "fasteoi" one used in PowerPC code and (as it turned out in my 

    Sorry for some confusion: in arch/powerpc/ level flow is always used for 
8259 code (just because it fits both leve and edge cases)...

> earlier discussion in linuxppc-dev) intended for the controllers that 
> are smart enough to mask off the lower-priority IRQs when getting the 
> top level one acknowledged and unmask them upon EOI command...

   However, Benjamin Herrenschmidt said that 8259 should have used fasteoi 
flow instead since it was intended for that exact type of controllers (he 
claimed to have proposed this flow initially).

>> ---
>> Atsushi Nemoto

WBR, Sergei

      reply	other threads:[~2006-12-01 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-01  9:40 Is _do_IRQ() not needed anymore ? Franck Bui-Huu
2006-12-01  9:57 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-12-01 10:06   ` Franck Bui-Huu
2006-12-01 10:10     ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-12-01 10:19       ` Franck Bui-Huu
2006-12-01 10:41         ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-12-01 11:03           ` Franck Bui-Huu
2006-12-01 11:12             ` Franck Bui-Huu
2006-12-01 11:12             ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-12-01 15:08       ` Sergei Shtylyov
2006-12-01 15:22         ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-12-01 15:29           ` Sergei Shtylyov
2006-12-01 15:34             ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]

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