[RFC] MPIC Bindings and Bindings for AMP Systems

[Blanchard, Hollis]

On 12/23/2010 01:49 PM, Meador Inge wrote:
>
> We can't just remove the IRQ of the _other_ OS from the 'interrupts' 
> property in the message node because we need to know the IRQ in order 
> to talk to the other OS.  So, we use protected sources to tell the OS 
> that an IRQ is not available for its own use, while at the same time 
> keeping 
> complete information on all the IRQ mappings for the message registers.
There's a simpler and more fundamental problem: the Linux MPIC driver 
initializes the "VECPRI" register for all interrupt sources (which is 
how you associate a source with a vector). We need the Linux driver not 
to do this.

(The "no-reset" property solves a related problem: it tells the driver 
not to use the hardware's special "reset all registers" bit.)

Hollis Blanchard
Mentor Graphics, Embedded Systems Division