[LinuxBIOS] Two more CS5530 IRQ steering questions

[Jonathan Sturges]

Two additional questions about CS5530 IRQ steering:
1)  Comments from Uwe Hermann and Peter Stuge have indicated that it's really better for the kernel to setup the steering registers.  Why is this?  It sounds like the BIOS is a good place to set these.  I assume that a knowledgeable OS could change them if necessary?  At the very least, it does sound like we all agree that it's OK to have LB setup the steering until Linux is fixed.

2)  Question about irq_tables.c.  Many of the CS5536 systems have a write_pirq_routing_table() in irq_tables.c that sets the steering registers.  I'd like to be able to set the steering registers in CS5530 systems too, but I'm not a software developer and I need some help.  So in src/mainboard/artecgroup/dbe61/irq_tables.c, you have:
/* Set up chipset IRQ steering. */
pciAddr = 0x80000000 | (CHIPSET_DEV_NUM << 11) | 0x5C;
chipset_irq_map = (PIRQD << 12 | PIRQC << 8 | PIRQB << 4 | PIRQA);
printk_debug("%s(%08X, %04X)\n", __FUNCTION__, pciAddr,
              chipset_irq_map);
outl(pciAddr & ~3, 0xCF8);
outl(chipset_irq_map, 0xCFC);My main question with this block of code is what the two outl() calls are for.  It looks like pciAddr gets the address of the 0x5c steering register, and chipset_irq_map sets the right bits to set all 4 PIRQ lines.  But I'd expect to see the chipset_irq_map written to pciAddr.

As an alternative, Kenji Noguchi used this code block to set the registers in a CS5530 system he's working on (posted 5-May-2007):
device_t pdev;
//CS5530A
pdev = dev_find_slot(0, (0x12 << 3) + 0);
pci_write_config8(pdev, 0x5c, 0xab);
pci_write_config8(pdev, 0x5d, 0x09);


This block makes more sense to me.  Obviously the register values could be set by 
#defines, but it looks simpler to me.

Bottom line is, before I implement IRQ steering for my CS5530 system, I want to understand what the first code block is doing, and if (or why) it's preferable over the 2nd code block.  Any guidance is appreciated.

thanks,
Jonathan





       
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