[U-Boot] [PATCH 16/18] malta: setup PIIX4 interrupt route

Paul Burton paul.burton at imgtec.com
Mon Nov 11 11:57:25 CET 2013


On 10/11/13 20:09, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Dear Paul Burton,
>
>> Without setting up the PIRQ[A:D] interrupt routes, PCI interrupts will
>> be left disabled. Linux does not set up this routing but relies upon it
>> having been set up by the bootloader, reading back the IRQ lines which
>> the PIRQ[A:D] signals have been routed to.
>
> Did you also submit a fix to Linux guys?
>
> Best regards,
> Marek Vasut
>

No, I haven't. Although Linux is reliant upon these values having been 
programmed it's quite clear from reading its code that that depence is 
intentional. It explicitely reads the route setup by the bootloader 
rather than clobbering it, and to me that does make sense in this case.

However the pcnet32 ethernet driver seems to be reliant upon the 
interrupt and doesn't handle the case of a PCI device with no assigned 
interrupt, so I'll send a patch to fail its probe in that case shortly.

Thanks,
     Paul



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