Re: Shared Interrupts Question (2.4)

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 08:08:56PM +0000, Kent Borg wrote:

I am trying to understand "kinda shared" interrupts.

There are various interrupts in my not-yet-released CPU, and I have
interrupt code that knows how to talk to them.  So far so good.  I
also have an external interrupt controller that groups together 18
external interrupt sources and sends them in one CPU pin.  This
external controller has a register for enabling interrupts, and a
register for status/acknowledge.  Pretty standard.

The CPU code doesn't know about the external controller.  It seems
silly to rewrite the CPU-specific interrput code to accommodate this
board-specific detail (besides then my code won't match Dale's).  So I
figure I tell the kernel I am doing shared interrupts.

So where do I enable, disable, and acknowledge these external bits?
Specifically, I am trying to get a couple of serial ports working.  I
can put conditional code in serial.c startup() to enable these
interrupts, but how do I know which serial port?  Add a conditionally
compiled sub-IRQ number to serial_state structure?

Is there a cleaner way?

Create and register a board-specific interrupt driver.  Assign it
a range of irqs (non-conflicting with the main interrupt driver).
When called with an irq outside its range, the board-specific driver
routines forward the call to the main driver.  The board-specific driver
does a request_irq at init time for the one main irq it is multiplexing.

-Dale

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