Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] powerpc/8xx: Fix NR_IRQ bugs and refactor 8xx interrupt controller

Scott Wood
2012-04-24T22:05:22Z

On 04/24/2012 06:22 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 09:41 +0200, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
>> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote on 2012/04/24 05:13:15:
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 16:30 -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
>>>> The mpc8xx driver uses a reference to NR_IRQS that is buggy. It uses
>>>> NR_IRQs for the array size of the ppc_cached_irq_mask bitmap, but
>>>> NR_IRQs could be smaller than the number of hardware irqs that
>>>> ppc_cached_irq_mask tracks.
>>>
>>> Joakim, any chance you can test this ASAP ? :-)
>>
>> Sorry, but no. We have not moved our 8xx boards to 3.x as it in maintenance
>> and takes too much space.
>
> Ah ok... Anybody else on the list who still has some 8xx gear ?

Boots OK on ep88xc.

-Scott