[PATCH] pata_of_platform: fix no irq handling
Sergei Shtylyov
sshtylyov at ru.mvista.com
Wed Aug 13 00:18:42 EST 2008
Anton Vorontsov wrote:
>>>>1. IDE status read does not work. (But am I understand correctly
>>>> that IDE works well if IRQ is unspecified? Then this is hardly
>>>> an issue.)
>>>>2. IDE interrupt comes when it should not. I'd recommend to use
>>>> oscilloscope to find out what is happening there, that is, if
>>>> the drive actually deasserts its irq line after status read.
>>>> If so, than this could be a PIC problem.
>>>>What is the platform on which you're observing the issue, btw?
>>>Another possibility is that you got the wrong interrupt number
>>>in the device-tree...
>>>Ben.
>>The platform is the AMCC Sequoia board. We've built a little adapter to
>>connect a compact flash card to the processor bus. I believe the
>>interrupt selection in the device tree is correct, and I've checked over
>>the u-boot settings for the IRQ line (active high, level sensitive).
> IDE IRQs are active-low.
Only on the PCI and only in the native mode. Natively, the IDE INTRQ
signal is active-high, rising edge triggering, as on ISA. You seem to have an
invertor somewhere, if it's not a PCI chip...
WBR, Sergei
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