pc386 shared interrupts (was: GigE NIC)

Michael South msouth at msouth.org
Sun Nov 30 02:00:59 UTC 2008


Should i386ex and ts_386ex also be migrated to shared interrupts, or
just pc386?

Mike

On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 08:40 -0800, Till Straumann wrote:
> Sebastian Huber wrote:
> > Till Straumann wrote:
> >   
> >> Joel Sherrill wrote:
> >>     
> > [...]
> >   
> >>> Till.. we missed getting your ported drivers into 4.9.  Can we
> >>> take a stab at merging them now?
> >>> It will likely be easier for someone to at least update to the
> >>> latest from there.
> >>>       
> >> The show-stopper was (and AFAIK still is) that the pc386 interrupt 
> >> dispatcher still doesn't
> >> support shared interrupts. Someone would have to upgrade the pc386
> >> code first (can't be that hard; maybe ppc and 386 can be merged into
> >> a single more generic piece implementing most of <rtems/irq.h>
> >> and <rtems/irq-extensions.h>
> >>     
> > [...]
> >
> > It should be quite easy to use the generic interrupt framework in
> >
> > c/src/lib/libbsp/shared/include/irq-config.h
> > c/src/lib/libbsp/shared/include/irq-generic.h
> > c/src/lib/libbsp/shared/src/irq-generic.c
> > c/src/lib/libbsp/shared/src/irq-legacy.c
> >
> >   
> Sure - but someone has to do it ;-)
> > Example BSPs that use this framework:
> >
> > c/src/lib/libbsp/arm/lpc24xx
> > c/src/lib/libbsp/powerpc/gen83xx
> >
> >   
> 
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