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

From: Scott Wood <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:44:16 -0500

Timur Tabi wrote:
> Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> 
>> I don't know (didn't look) why this works for 83xx w/o ack()...
>> maybe IPIC don't need this. Or maybe there is a bug hiding.
> 
> Scott W told me that me that the IPIC doesn't have the concept of EOI ack.  It 
> just has IRQ masks.

And the IRQ will be masked at the QEIC while being processed.  Doing it 
this way allows another QE interrupt to come through while the first is 
being serviced.

It might make sense on MPIC to ack after masking at the QEIC, for this 
reason.

-Scott