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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale•com>
To: Gerhard Pircher <gerhard_pircher@gmx•net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: Problem with OF interrupt parsing code
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:37:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <470168B4.7090005@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <470165F6.7030505@freescale.com>

Scott Wood wrote:
>> The problem occurs now, if there is no device node defined for another
>> PCI device. In this case, of_irq_map_pci() checks for an interrupt pin,
>> searches again for the host bridge node and calls of_irq_map_raw() with
>> the device node of the host bridge. The function finds the
>> #interrupt-cells, #address-cells, interrupt-controller properties, but
>> fails to find the interrupt-map property (because it's missing in the
>> device tree). Therefore the function then tries to find a new parent,
>> which leads to an endless loop (it always selects the PCI2ISA southbridge
>> in the device tree).
> 
> That seems likely... there should probably be some loop detection.

Actually, it doesn't -- it should stop when it sees the 
interrupt-controller property in the i8259 node, at which point it'll be 
trying to use the raw PCI IRQ pin number as an i8259 IRQ.  This is 
Unlikely To Work(tm).

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-01 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-01 21:00 Problem with OF interrupt parsing code Gerhard Pircher
2007-10-01 21:11 ` Gerhard Pircher
2007-10-01 21:39   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-01 22:33   ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-10-01 22:54     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-01 22:55       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-01 23:36       ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-10-02 12:38       ` Gerhard Pircher
2007-10-02 22:03         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-03  7:43           ` Gerhard Pircher
2007-10-01 21:26 ` Scott Wood
2007-10-01 21:37   ` Scott Wood [this message]
2007-10-01 21:43     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-01 21:48       ` Scott Wood
2007-10-01 22:07         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-02 12:46   ` Gerhard Pircher
2007-10-01 21:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-10-02 12:40 Gerhard Pircher

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