Virtual IRQs on 82xx

Virtual IRQs on 82xx

[Muller, Ralf (NSN - FI/Espoo)]

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Hi,

I'm using a 8247 custom board and kernl 2.6.21.7 on the arch/powerpc
branch. Here the irq are virtualized  in the irq map functions now I'm
facing several problems.
* I have to manually call irq_create_of_mapping for each CPM interrupt
* The irq_map structure, which associates virtual to HW IRQs is not
initialized auto matically
* The reverse map isn't initialized

And the major problem is:
Now the kernel mixes virtual- and HW-IRQs, e.g. request_irq works with
HW_IRQs but the interrupt handler with virtual interrupts, which can't
work.
For some reason even on a powerpc the first 16 interrupts are reserved
for legacy (PC) IRQs, so the easiest mapping HW-IRQ0 -> VIRQ16 a.s.o
Is there an solution available for this problem, at least for it looks
like the problem still persists in 2.6.26?

Regards,
Ralf


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Re: Virtual IRQs on 82xx

[Scott Wood]

Muller, Ralf (NSN - FI/Espoo) wrote:
> I'm using a 8247 custom board and kernl 2.6.21.7

I strongly recommend using something newer.  There was a lot of 82xx 
work going on around that time.

> on the arch/powerpc 
> branch. Here the irq are virtualized  in the irq map functions now I'm 
> facing several problems.
> 
> * I have to manually call irq_create_of_mapping for each CPM interrupt

What's wrong with irq_of_parse_and_map()?

> And the major problem is:
> Now the kernel mixes virtual- and HW-IRQs, e.g. request_irq works with 
> HW_IRQs but the interrupt handler with virtual interrupts, which can't work.

No, request_irq works with virtual interrupts as well.

> For some reason even on a powerpc the first 16 interrupts are reserved 
> for legacy (PC) IRQs,

Right, there are powerpc systems with the same legacy interrupts and the 
same ISA drivers that expect to be able to use ISA IRQs directly as virqs.

> so the easiest mapping HW-IRQ0 -> VIRQ16 a.s.o

The "easiest mapping" is whatever the IRQ subsystem gives you.  This 
isn't something that should be hardcoded.

-Scott