[PATCH 7/7] MPIC U3/U4 MSI backend

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Tue May 8 18:55:02 EST 2007


On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 12:58 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> MPIC U3/U4 MSI backend. Based on code from Segher, heavily hacked by me.
> This only deals with MSI on U3/U4 MPICs, aka. CPC 9x5.
> 
> If we find a U3/U4 then we enable this backend, ie. take over the ppc_md
> MSI hooks. We might need more elaborate logic in future to decide which
> backend is enabled.
> 
> We need our own irq_chip so that we can do MSI masking/unmasking on
> the device itself. We also need to mask explicitly on shutdown to make
> sure we don't get bitten by lazy-disable semantics.

How badly will this clash with my patch that implements suspend/resume
for mpic, and will I need to do more suspend/resume for this?

johannes
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