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From: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: kvm-ppc-devel <kvm-ppc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
	Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Bamboo PCI interrupt issues
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 13:15:03 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080304021503.GH1393@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <08b18695c383fb829ecf3ab6c2822bd1@kernel.crashing.org>

On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 03:07:50AM +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> >>> Uh.. there's no binding written down, it's just encoded into uic.c.
> >>> But UIC doesn't use OpenPIC sensitivity encoding.  Like FSL's IPIC, 
> >>> it
> >>> uses Linux IRQ_TYPE values from include/linux/irq.h which makes 8
> >>> "level sensitive, active-low".
> >>
> >> On a related note: aren't we taking a risk here of seeing those values
> >> change in linux ?
> >
> > We've discussed this before.  If that happens, the binding must remain
> > on the old values.  It means the driver will then need a translation
> > which it doesn't now, but we can deal with it.
> 
> It also means it should be written down in the binding _already_.

Well, yes, there should be, but isn't, a written binding for this,
amongst many other things.

> Come on, how much work is that?

Greater than zero.

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-04  2:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-04  0:02 Bamboo PCI interrupt issues Hollis Blanchard
2008-03-04  0:59 ` David Gibson
2008-03-04  1:42   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-03-04  1:53     ` David Gibson
2008-03-04  2:07       ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-03-04  2:15         ` David Gibson [this message]
2008-03-04  3:37 ` Josh Boyer
2008-03-04  6:15   ` Stefan Roese
2008-03-04  6:33     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-03-04 20:39       ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-03-04 20:41         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-03-04 20:59           ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-03-04 21:01             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-03-04  6:18   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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