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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	anemo@mba.sphere.ne.jp, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Import updates from i386's i8259.c
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:53:40 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4576CB64.2060705@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64N.0612061337220.29000@blysk.ds.pg.gda.pl>

Hello.

Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

>>>+static struct irq_chip i8259A_chip = {
>>>+	.name		= "XT-PIC",
>>>+	.mask		= disable_8259A_irq,
>>>+	.unmask		= enable_8259A_irq,
>>>+	.mask_ack	= mask_and_ack_8259A,
>>> };

>>   I wonder whose idea was to call this device XT-PIC. XT never had dual 8259A
>>PICs and so was capable of handling only 8 IRQs. Dual 8259A was first used in
>>the AT class machines...

>  Ask Ingo, perhaps... ;-)

    Ask and be ignored. :-)

>  I think he was perfectly right, though -- this 
> is a pair of PC/XT-class PICs.

    Coupled as only in PC/AT-class machines. So, this XT qualification is 
actually meaningless. It's 8259A, that's all.

>  And with the "IO-APIC-edge" and 
> "IO-APIC-level" alternatives back when the concept of IRQ controllers was 
> introduced, "XT-PIC" rather than "8259A" sounded quite right.

    I don't follow you here.

>   Maciej

WBR, Sergei

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-06 13:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-05 16:23 [PATCH] Import updates from i386's i8259.c Atsushi Nemoto
2006-12-05 16:50 ` Franck Bui-Huu
2006-12-05 16:52   ` Ralf Baechle
2006-12-05 17:10     ` Franck Bui-Huu
2006-12-06  1:28   ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-12-06  1:45     ` Ralf Baechle
2006-12-05 19:49 ` Ralf Baechle
2006-12-05 19:57   ` Ralf Baechle
2006-12-06  1:39     ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-12-06  1:58       ` Ralf Baechle
2006-12-06  2:56         ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-12-06  4:38           ` anemo
2006-12-06 13:17             ` Sergei Shtylyov
2006-12-06 13:48               ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2006-12-06 13:53                 ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2006-12-06 14:41                   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2006-12-06 15:12                     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2006-12-06 15:43                       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2006-12-06 15:48                         ` Sergei Shtylyov
2006-12-06 19:00                           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2006-12-06 17:03               ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-12-06 20:32                 ` Ralf Baechle
2006-12-06 12:07           ` Ralf Baechle
2006-12-06  8:40     ` Franck Bui-Huu
2006-12-07  3:17       ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-12-07  7:34         ` Franck Bui-Huu
2006-12-07 11:50         ` Ralf Baechle
2006-12-07 13:32           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2006-12-07 13:37             ` Ralf Baechle
2006-12-07 13:51           ` Sergei Shtylyov
2006-12-07 15:03             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2006-12-07 15:09               ` Ralf Baechle

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