XIVE.patch - XIVE needs to be set to 0xFF before deconfiguring a slot

Anton Blanchard anton at samba.org
Sat Aug 16 07:15:54 EST 2003


Hi Linda,

> When attempting to remove an I/O slot, RTAS isolation is complaining that
> there are still XIVE(Extend Interrupt Vector) entries associated with the
> slot. Setting the priority of 0xFF(lthe lowest) effectively disables the
> XIVEs in firmware.

Looks good, I checked it into BK. I added a small comment so we wouldnt
forget why that line is there :) I also removed the distrib_server stuff
since we dont care at that point.

Anton

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