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From: Grant Grundler <grundler@puffin.external.hp.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com>, parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] EISA support
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 21:56:44 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200110110356.VAA21437@puffin.external.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> of "Thu, 11 Oct 2001 02:40:10 BST." <20011011024010.C13932@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>

Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> I have a plan to allocate Mongoose's IRQ in a nicer way, but that will
> have to wait until tomorrow.  What do you think the best way would be
> to fix EISA card IRQs?  I have a couple of thoughts:
> 
>  * Introduce a new EISA_IRQ_BASE macro that most architectures
>    define to 0.

I don't know what other archs do or how hard that would be to drive
into the other arches.

>  * Reserve IRQ region 0 for EISA

reserve IRQ region 0 for EISA.
It's reserved now to catch broken PCI drivers that treat the IRQ number
as a byte instead of an int. So for machines w/o EISA, it could
continue to remain reserved for that purpose.

grant

  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-11  4:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-10  6:24 [parisc-linux] EISA support Matthew Wilcox
2001-10-10  8:32 ` Michael S.Zick
2001-10-10 11:01   ` Alan Modra
2001-10-10 14:11     ` Michael S.Zick
2001-10-10 14:48   ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-10-10 15:38     ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-10-10 16:57       ` Michael S.Zick
2001-10-10 12:45 ` Richard Hirst
2001-10-10 14:28   ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-10-10 17:36     ` Grant Grundler
2001-10-11  1:40     ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-10-11  3:56       ` Grant Grundler [this message]
2001-10-11 11:23       ` Richard Hirst
2001-10-11 20:22         ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-10-11  8:15     ` Richard Hirst
2001-10-12  6:44 ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-10-12  8:47   ` Richard Hirst
2001-10-12  9:01     ` Richard Hirst
2001-10-16 19:17 ` Tom
2001-10-16 19:46   ` Jochen Friedrich
2001-10-16 20:00     ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-10-16 22:26       ` Jochen Friedrich
2001-10-16 22:32         ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-10-18 14:31 ` Tom
2001-10-18 15:08   ` Matthew Wilcox
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-10 11:37 Pedot, Wolfgang

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