RFC: i8259.c cleanup

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Dan Malek wrote:
> hollis at austin.ibm.com wrote:
> > The following patch (to linuxppc_2_4_devel) does exactly that - it reads from
> > 0xbffffff0 instead of the 8259 directly.
>
> Ummmmm.....this probably works OK on PReP, but I don't think it is going
> to have the desired effect on other systems using an 8259 :-).  You need
> to find a way to to make the code you changed unique to PReP.

Note that CHRP already has such a thing (chrp_int_ack_special), to be used with
OpenPIC (it's passed to openpic_init()).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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