Re: IRQ-Tables once again

[ron minnich]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Reading the Linux kernel sources it seems that Linux _does_ expect the
> devices to have interrupts assigned already, which obviously LinuxBIOS
> does not do. This has to be "fixed" if LinuxBIOS shall be open to
> anybody not patching special kernels that do the right thing.

no. In 2.4, in the right circumstances, the kernel can assign interrupts 
just fine.
> If we provide tables at all, can we maybe drop the irq table and only
> use the mptable?

no, sadly the kernel needs an irq table for pci bus scanning.

ron