[U-Boot] [PATCH] x86: make X86IRQ per Kconfig switchable

[Bin Meng]

Hi Hannes,

On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 5:12 AM Hannes Schmelzer <oe5hpm at oevsv.at> wrote:
>
> This commit creates the freedom for boards to do nothing with the whole
> IRQ stuff on x86 during u-boot.
>
> This is especially important on older systems which have many legacy irq
> and no ACPI support within BIOS, they get in trouble if, for example,
> u-boot does mask all the interrupts on a PIC.
>

Can you elaborate more on what specific issues are here? x86 interrupt
was designed to keep backward compatible and I don't think current
codes will break anything.

> Signed-off-by: Hannes Schmelzer <oe5hpm at oevsv.at>
>
> ---
>
>  arch/x86/Kconfig      | 8 ++++++++
>  arch/x86/lib/Makefile | 2 +-
>  include/_exports.h    | 2 +-
>  3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>

Regards,
Bin