[GSOC] Help required for action to take on rtems_irq_global_settings

[Sebastian Huber]

Hello Vipul,

all the BSPs using this structure use the old copy and paste interrupt support. 
  So before we can remove the legacy API here we have to convert the interrupt 
support code first to the generic IRQ implementation.

The big problem is that we cannot test this in most cases and you need to know 
how the particular interrupt controller works for the particular BSP.

I would not touch these BSPs at the moment.

On 2013-07-23 17:20, Vipul Nayyar wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As part of GSOC project to remove legacy code, I'm
> encountering rtems_irq_global_settings data type in many powerpc BSPs. Since
> it's part of legacy API, it should be removed. In some cases, removing all it's
> components & uses in the file seems fine.
>
> But in places where the data types part of this structure are actually being
> used for important stuff, how should I proceed ? You might remember
> that rtems_irq_global_settings encompasses an int,
> a rtems_irq_connect_data(which itself is a structure), a pointer to same
> structure, rtems_irq_number & rtems_irq_prio* .
>
> How should I transfer/use all the values present in rtems_irq_global_settings
> without using any legacy data type(i.e rtems_irq_connect_data
> & rtems_irq_connect_data*) ?
>
> Thanks in advance for the guidance.
>
> Regards
> Vipul Nayyar
>


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