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From: "Pandita, Vikram" <vikram.pandita@ti.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 02:27:51 +0530

> On Zoom2 TI OMAP3 based board, the IRQ we are requesting is
> value=381 and hence the problem reported.

The IRQ reported by this user call is only reliable for
ISA devices.

Or, ARM platforms could opt to use a virtual IRQ scheme like
PowerPC and Sparc use, which keeps all device IRQs under
256.