I am working on upgrading a board support package from the 2.4.25
kernel to the 2.6.5, and I noticed that it looks like the OpenPIC
support has taken a step BACK in the 2.6 kernel.
In the 2.4 tree, openpic_hookup_cascade() exists, allowing non-8259
cascades to IRQs other than 0. This seems to be totally missing from
the 2.6 kernel (82c59 is the ONLY supported cascade type there). As my
board uses a custom PLD interrupt controller cascaded to an MPC107,
this is a problem.
Have I gotten the wrong repository for LinuxPPC 2.6? I'm using
ppc.bkbits.net/linuxppc-2.5, which shows up as the 2.6.5-rc1 kernel.
If not, is there a reason this feature is now missing for the OpenPIC
driver?
Thanks,
John Whitney
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On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 05:11:02PM -0500, John Whitney wrote:
I am working on upgrading a board support package from the 2.4.25
kernel to the 2.6.5, and I noticed that it looks like the OpenPIC
support has taken a step BACK in the 2.6 kernel.
In the 2.4 tree, openpic_hookup_cascade() exists, allowing non-8259
cascades to IRQs other than 0. This seems to be totally missing from
the 2.6 kernel (82c59 is the ONLY supported cascade type there). As my
board uses a custom PLD interrupt controller cascaded to an MPC107,
this is a problem.
Have I gotten the wrong repository for LinuxPPC 2.6? I'm using
ppc.bkbits.net/linuxppc-2.5, which shows up as the 2.6.5-rc1 kernel.
If not, is there a reason this feature is now missing for the OpenPIC
driver?
This is intentional behavior. During 2.5 development, and I think
around when openpic_hookup_cascade() went into 2.4, I asked Paul what he
thought, and he wanted something more robust I believe. Sadly, nothing
further happened on this front.
Paul, what do you think about re-introducing openpic_hookup_cascade(irq,
name, cascade_fn(pt_regs)) in 2.6? Or outlining a better way to handle
the problems of aribtrared controllers on OpenPIC irqs (both the custom
board described above, and Sandpoint X2 support) need something along
these lines.
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Tom Rini
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