MPC8272- Porting HDLC driver from 2.6.14 to 2.6.27- "no_irq_chip" error

[Daniel Ng]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Wolfram Sang <w.sang at pengutronix.de> wrote:
>> this is an example of how a simple 8313 Periodic Interval Timer (PIT) kernel driver
>> registers for the PIT IRQ (Interrupt ID 65)
>>
>> #define PIT_IRQ 65
>>
>>     virq = irq_create_mapping(NULL, PIT_IRQ);
>>     set_irq_type(virq, IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW);
>>
>>     if(request_irq(virq, (irq_handler_t)timerEvent, 0, "timer2", (void *)0)) {
>>         printk(KERN_ERR "request_irq() returned error for irq=%d virq=%d\n", PIT_IRQ, virq);
>>     }
>
> It is some time ago, but when I did something similar I needed the
> following patch in order to use NULL for irq_create_mapping(). Have a
> try, and if it is still needed (as it looks from a glimpse), then maybe
> we should get it merged?
>
> ===
>
> From: Wolfram Sang <w.sang at pengutronix.de>
> Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/cpm2: make cpm2_pic the default host
>
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang at pengutronix.de>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/sysdev/cpm2_pic.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/cpm2_pic.c b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/cpm2_pic.c
> index 78f1f7c..7a7d4e5 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/cpm2_pic.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/cpm2_pic.c
> @@ -272,4 +272,5 @@ void cpm2_pic_init(struct device_node *node)
>                printk(KERN_ERR "CPM2 PIC: failed to allocate irq host!\n");
>                return;
>        }
> +       irq_set_default_host(cpm2_pic_host);
>  }

Thanks guys.

I can confirm that Wolfram's patch above is required to get Norbet's
suggestion to work. Without the patch, I still get the original
symptoms. I have tested this on 2.6.27.19.

Daniel