[PATCH 2/4 V6] MSI support on 83xx/85xx/86xx board

[Michael Ellerman]

On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 08:02 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> On May 23, 2008, at 7:59 AM, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 04:32:46PM +0800, Jason Jin wrote:
> >> This MSI driver can be used on 83xx/85xx/86xx board.
> >> In this driver, virtual interrupt host and chip were
> >> setup. There are 256 MSI interrupts in this host, Every 32
> >> MSI interrupts cascaded to one IPIC/MPIC interrupt.
> >> The chip was treated as edge sensitive and some necessary
> >> functions were setup for this chip.
> >>
> >> Before using the MSI interrupt, PCI/PCIE device need to
> >> ask for a MSI interrupt in the 256 MSI interrupts. A 256bit
> >> bitmap show which MSI interrupt was used, reserve bit in
> >> the bitmap can be used to force the device use some designate
> >> MSI interrupt in the 256 MSI interrupts. Sometimes this is useful
> >> for testing the all the MSI interrupts. The msi-available-ranges
> >> property in the dts file was used for this purpose.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jason Jin <Jason.jin at freescale.com>
> >> ---
> >
> > Hello Jason,
> >
> > Few comments below.
> 
> Jason, I'll apply this version.  I expect some clean up based on Anton  
> and Stephen's comments.

Version 4 or 5 of this patch had my ACK for the MSI bits FWIW.

cheers

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