Hi, I am trying to use a mips cpu the cs5536. I have some problem with the 8259 of cs5536. The databook said,
"Control Logic The INT output goes directly to the CPU interrupt input. When an INT signal is activated, the CPU responds with an Interrupt Acknowledge access that is translated to two pulses on the INTA input of the PIC. At the first INTA pulse, the highest priority IRR bit is loaded into the corresponding ISR bit, and that IRR bit is reset. The second INTA pulse instructs the PIC to present the 8-bit vector of the interrupt handler onto the data bus."
Is it the responsibility of north bridge to reponse to intr with a PCI Interrupt Ack cycle? it's a problem that my northbridge didn't implement that! Fortunately we use a fpga as a northbridge.
it seem it's no way to fix this by software, for OCW3 didn't implemnt Poll command:(
so I guess the the process is: 1) 8259 receive a int, a bit irr got set. 2) 8259 assert intr. 3) northbrige generate a int ack cycle. 4) cs5536 translate the ack into two INTA pulse, and the reponse northbridge with a interrupt vector. 5) then my program can get the vector from northbridge?
Is that right?
Without int ack, generic linux-mips 8259 code can't work.
Greetings, Tian