El 07.07.2009, a las 08:59, Florian Boelstler escribió:

> Tobias Netzel schrieb:
>> The point is that the pmu driver doesn't use interrupts for
>> initializing the PMU
>> what means that it isn't a failure of the interrupt handling at all
>> but it seems that
>> something is wrong with the mapping of the I/O addresses or the I/O
>> access routines.
>
> OK, I will have a look in that direction.
> I was able to take a snapshot with my mobile when init_pmu() returns.
> It just returned 0 (error) and the PowerBook turned off. Therefore I
> also assume that it is more likely an I/O problem than something  
> related
> to weird stack pointers / return addresses.

I'd have to test the powerpc arch again to see if the problem I had  
with it
was also caused by pmu_suspend();
>
>>> I'm not sure at the moment whether too many ppc_md.progress()- 
>>> messages
>>> may keep the PowerBook from proceeding fast enough.
>>> Moreover I just spotted that the polling-based interrupt handler, is
>>> *not* actually polling in its current version.
>>
>> Well I actually thought it was polling every second or so for new
>> interrupts.
>> Or are the timer routines non-functional?
>
> Yes, the timer routine was not implemented / activated.
> I gave it try but during setup of PMU there is no traffic going in
> nbpmac_m2.c at all.
>
>> Nevertheless the old approach is a bad hack, doesn't respect the  
>> reality
>> of the hierarchy of the interrupt chain and wastes a lot of precious
>> CPU time.
>
> Yes, of course.
>
> Cheers,
>
>   Florian
>
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