Re: [PATCH v2 -rt] ide: workaround buggy hardware issues with preemptablehardirqs

From: Sergei Shtylyov
Date: Sun Jun 29 2008 - 09:18:07 EST


Alan Cox wrote:

His boot log shows the native mode.

Then the bridge is misprogrammed

What's IDEIRT, some ISA bridge register? And why should one set [A]PIC to level mode for legacy mode IDE? :-O

You need an NDA and then they'll send you the data sheet for the bridges
and other logic. It's all programmable.

That could be a very long story... :-|

"He has an OpenPIC, it's PowerPC SoC, so no ELCR either"

Really - he's using a designed for PC ISA bridge etc.. he might have all
sorts of stuff on it.

Ah, indeed. I meant to say that 8259 and ELCR are bypassed for PCI IRQs (or at least Anton says so :-).

Alan

MBR, Sergei
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