On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:53 AM, David Gibson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 04:14:25AM +0000, Sethi Varun-B16395 wrote:
>> You can use a 4 cell interrupt specifier (we use that in case of embedded 
>> power architecture platforms)
>> - First cell corresponds to one of the four cascade lines (coming from the 
>> cascaded pic)
>> - Second cell provides the interrupt sense information
>> - Third one tells the interrupt subtype (in your case should be the cascade 
>> power interrupt type)
>> - Fourth cell communicates the interrupt number corresponding to the 
>> cascaded pic.
>>
>> There would be a single interrupt parent, which is the system interrupt 
>> controller. You would have
>> to translate the four cell interrupt specifier and also add cascaded 
>> interrupt handling
>> for the shared interrupt line.
>
> No, don't do that.
>
> Use the interrupt-map technique described in the thread that got
> linked earlier.

If interrupts had syntax like GPIOs this problem wouldn't exist.


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