PowerPC: new_exceptions status

[Sergei Organov]

leonp at plris.com writes:

> On Thursday, 23 в▒June 2005 14:48, Nickolay Kolchin wrote:
> > > > This mean that rtems_interrupt_catch function don't work and it is
> > > > used in ATA driver (/c/src/libchip/ide/ata.c).
> > >
> > > This function is not in use with new_exception.
> > >
> > > > Can somebody clarify what is current status of new_exceptions
> > > > interface in PowerPC and what should be used instead of
> > > > rtems_interrupt_catch?
> > >
> > > BSP_install_rtems_irq_handler(&icd)
> > > See files irq.h, irg.c.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Does this mean that rtems_interrupt_catch is obsolete and shouldn't be
> > used with other architectures too? Or this is PowerPC specific issue?
> AFAIK, all ports which use the new_exception processing must use these
> new API functions. But I have used only PPC.

I always thought that RTEMS API functions are BSP-independent and their
names begin with rtems_/RTEMS_. So it looks like yet another PowerPC new
exception processing breakage/hack.

-- 
Sergei.