[PATCH] mpic: add support for serial mode interrupts

Mark A. Greer mgreer at mvista.com
Wed Jun 21 02:37:24 EST 2006


On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 02:01:26PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 13:08 -0700, Mark A. Greer wrote:
> > MPC10x-style interrupt controllers have a serial mode that allows
> > several interrupts to be clocked in through one INT signal.
> > 
> > This patch adds the software support for that mode.
> 
> You hard code the clock ratio...

Basically, I just brought what was already in ppc over to powerpc.
I didn't really think about it much.

> why not add a separate call to be called after mpic_init,
> something like mpic_set_serial_int(int mpic, int enable, int
> clock_ratio) ?

Yeah, that's a better way to do it.

I'll make a new patch.

Mark



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