Two different interrupt-parents

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Mon Apr 16 14:53:08 EST 2012


On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 04:14:25AM +0000, Sethi Varun-B16395 wrote:
> You can use a 4 cell interrupt specifier (we use that in case of embedded power architecture platforms)
> - First cell corresponds to one of the four cascade lines (coming from the cascaded pic)
> - Second cell provides the interrupt sense information
> - Third one tells the interrupt subtype (in your case should be the cascade power interrupt type)
> - Fourth cell communicates the interrupt number corresponding to the cascaded pic.
> 
> There would be a single interrupt parent, which is the system interrupt controller. You would have
> to translate the four cell interrupt specifier and also add cascaded interrupt handling
> for the shared interrupt line.

No, don't do that.

Use the interrupt-map technique described in the thread that got
linked earlier.

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