Re: [PATCH 2/2] Initial generic hypertransport interrupt support.

Dave Olson
2006-07-12T06:10:56Z

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
| There is a hypertransport capability that implements a rough equivalent
| of a per device ioapic. It is quite similar to MSI but with a different
| register level interface.

It's really just the same as MSI, and is set up and handled pretty
much the same way.

| Since native hypertransport devices do not implement a pin emulation mode
| as native pci express devices do so if you want an interrupt you must support
| the native hypertransport method.

Right.

| The pathscale ipath-ht400 driver already in the kernel tree uses these
| and uses so an ugly hack to make work that broke in the last round of
| the msi cleanups. I also know of a driver under development for a
| device that uses these as well.

Umm, it's not broken by any of the the MSI cleanups, at least
through last week's 2.6.18.

| So I want to use this so I can get irqs from native hypertransport
| devices.

This part I never really quite understood. Why do you want a separate
interface than the existing request_irq() and pci_enable_msi()? Yes,
there needs to be some HT-specific implementation behind it, but I
don't see a reason for a whole new interface. Most of the rest of
the HT stuff is setup via the pci_* functions, so why not the interrupts?

Dave Olson
olson@unixfolk.com