[PATCH 1/2] Add MPC52xx Interrupt controller support for ARCH=powerpc

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Nov 1 07:29:32 EST 2006


On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 10:46 +0100, Nicolas DET wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >> Ok. that's why I suggest to keep buggy (or none) firmware board in 
> >> platform specific code.
> > 
> > Well, in that case, we have a well defined interface to set the sense
> > code, via the device-tree, and that's much better than having platform
> > code muck around the PIC hardware separately from the PIC driver don't
> > you think ?
> > 
> > Anyway, that's the way it works in Linux/powerpc so there is no need
> > debating that for ever. Just be aware that at one point, there will be a
> > set_type() implementation in this driver and that it will be called
> > based on the polarity information in the device-tree so make sure you
> > got it right.
> > 
> 
> Ok. set_type() is scheduled for later on or should it be included right now?
> What's next should be done to finally acked the driver?

Post the latest one and we'll see..

Ben





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