>The other problem is the "namespace" of request_irq() usually assumes >numbers 0 to 15 are an 8259, and many legacy devices are hardcoded to >use these numbers.
Not that much actually. Look at pmac, I have nothing even close to the 0..15 ISA namespace. Of course, a few crappy legacy ISA drivers are broken, but we don't use them on PMAC, and you can eventually hack them if you need them on embedded until a proper fix gets done. BTW. At least serial.c is beeing redesigned by Russel King (ARM) ;) Ben. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
