Re: [PATCH 4/7] MPIC MSI allocator

[Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>]

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On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 18:27 -0600, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:25:21PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > To support MSI on MPIC we need a way to reserve and allocate hardware irq
> > numbers, this patch implements an allocator for that.
> > 
> > Updated to only do dogy-U3-fallback-hacks on U3, all other platforms must
> > define a "msi-ranges" property on their MPIC node for MSI to work.
> 
> The msi-ranges spec isn't documented anywhere besides the code where it's
> used. Please add it to Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt too.

OK, will do.

I'm going to rename it to "msi-available-ranges" while I'm at it, PAPR
defines an "ibm,msi-ranges" property which has a very different meaning,
so I think the longer name is less confusing - even if there's never
going to be any machine with both.

cheers

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