Re: Preempt Real-time for ARM

Ingo Molnar
2005-02-09T11:31:52Z

* Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:

> On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 10:36 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote:
>
> > The biggest point of discussion relates to the interrupts in threads
> > implementation. It is largely identical to what is implemented in the
> > generic irq handling. However, ARM doesn't not implement generic irq
> > handling, and will not support it in the near future. I am not in
> > support of two different threaded interrupt implementations.
>
> We have done the conversion to the generic irq handling and it works
> fine on a couple of machines.

great - this would be a much preferred approach indeed.

> I'm just waiting until the new SMP bits are there before I have
> another go and clean up the missing SMP bits.

any chances for (most of) these bits going upstream as well? In any
case, the -RT tree can be a testbed for this.

Ingo