Subject: Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] Fix QEIC->MPIC cascading

From: Timur Tabi <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:03:08 -0500

Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> set_irq_chained_handler overwrites MPIC's handle_irq function
> (handle_fasteoi_irq) thus MPIC never gets eoi event from the
> cascaded IRQ. This situation hangs MPIC on MPC8568E.

I'm not familiar with the differences between IPIC and MPIC.  What is this 
patch not needed for 83xx?

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Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale