Problem with OF interrupt parsing code

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Oct 2 08:07:54 EST 2007


On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 16:48 -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 16:37 -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> >> Scott Wood wrote:
> >> Actually, it doesn't -- it should stop when it sees the 
> >> interrupt-controller property in the i8259 node, at which point it'll be 
> >> trying to use the raw PCI IRQ pin number as an i8259 IRQ.  This is 
> >> Unlikely To Work(tm).
> > 
> > It will work in the specific 8259 case I suppose since it gets the
> > legacy 1:1 mapping... but it sucks :-)
> 
> The mapping between INTA-D and i8259 numbers isn't generally 1:1, and it 
> looked as if it'd try using the former... though the code is 
> sufficiently complicated that I could easily be missing something.

If the whole of_* thing totally fails, pci_read_irq_line should pickup
the value in the config space PCI_INTERRUPT_LINE. That will work on
things like Pegasos and possibly on this AmigaOne but it sucks.

Ben.





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