On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 10:33 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Are we somehow enabling interrupts before we've setup > ppc_md.get_irq? > > > > Yes, we are - it's the semaphore rewrite which is doing this in > start_kernel(). It's being discussed. > > Enabling interrupts too early on powerpc was discovered to be fatal on > powerpc years ago. It looks like that remains the case.
Yes, it is and will probably always be. All that semaphore mucking around that hard-enables interrupts is just asking for trouble (and on more than just powerpc... heh, how do you do if your main interrupt controller hasn't even been initialized yet ?) Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
