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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru•mvista.com>
To: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@coritel•it>
Cc: Linuxppc Embedded Mailing List <linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org>
Subject: Re: External Interrupt
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:29:08 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47A32CB4.6010309@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47A2D424.3090903@coritel.it>

Hello.

Marco Stornelli wrote:

> I used the linux kernel 2.6.10 with a processor MPC8548E. I wrote a
> driver for a device connected with the local bus. This device has an
> external interrupt. In the local bus driver I have used the macro
> MPC85xx_IRQ_EXT<X> to get the interrupt number and pass it to the
> driver and after that register the ISR. Now with a kernel 2.6.21 this
> macro isn't available because in the header file irq.h there is the
> option CONFIG_PPC_MERGE that disable those options. I think this
> problem is related to the migration of ppc code towards powerpc. I
> know that now there is the new device tree source file where I can add
> a device and its interrupt number  but I think in this file I should
> describe only the platform device, and this device is not a platform
> device.

    How comes that it's not platform device if it hangs off the local bus?

> Then, how can I get now this  value? Is there some function to
> call? How can I perform this operation?

    Probably irq_alloc_virt()...

WBR, Sergei

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-01 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-01  8:11 External Interrupt Marco Stornelli
2008-02-01 14:28 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-02-01 15:15   ` Marco Stornelli
2008-02-01 15:35     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2008-02-01 16:22       ` Marco Stornelli
2008-02-01 19:43         ` Scott Wood
2008-02-01 19:55           ` Jon Loeliger
2008-02-01 14:29 ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2008-02-01 14:52 ` AW: " Lehmann, Hans (Ritter Elektronik)
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-01-30 13:31 Marco Stornelli

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