Re: [Fastboot] Re: [RFC/PATCH] Kdump: Disabling PCI interrupts in capture kernel

[Eric W. Biederman]

Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 07:13:06PM +0530, Dipankar Sarma wrote:
> > That said, I am not sure what is the issue with the console
> > drivers. What good is the irq for the console driver if
> > it hasn't requested for it ? Why should disabling it affect
> > consoles ? The interrupt will get enabled as soon as the driver
> > requests for it as per Vivek's patch. Am I missing something here ?
> 
> Doh! The answer is in earlier emails - fw controlled pci consoles.

There is still the question do fw controlled pci consoles
intersect with consoles used during kdump.  I would be
very surprised if the intersected but they might.

Eric

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