bootstrap stuffs

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, David Edelsohn wrote:
> 
> > 	As Gabriel correctly explained, a "sync" instruction may be
> > necessary before interrupts are enabled if some off-chip operation, like
> > modifying an interrupt controller on the bus, was performed.  That is
> > because of the bus operations which need to complete before interrupts can
> > be enabled, not because of the enabling itself.
> 
> Actually I have come to the conclusion that the best way to handle this is
> to add a sync instruction in the mask/disable interrupt routines (the ones
> that access the interrupt controllers), so that all following __cli/__sti
> only need to access the MSR (for enable/unmask you don't care to
> synchronize of course).

Then do we need sync in the OpenPIC routines, too?

Greetings,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven at cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium


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