[coreboot] [PATCH] artecgroup/dbe62: Route ethernet adapter IRQ correctly and reduce interrupt contention problems by using different IRQs for all the interrupt lines

[Peter Stuge]

On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 09:46:41PM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> get the USB interrupts out of the PIR table. They are not really
> routed via the standard IRQ router anyway -- they are internal --
> and don't need to share interrupt #s with the other devices that
> are actually routed via the interrupt routing hardware.

Are you sure? From the OS point of view they still need a 4-bit
interrupt number, since they are supposed to be PCI devices. No?


> Put simply, having the USB f.3,4,5 devices in the PIR table works,
> but is really a bit of a mistake.

USB is on the GLIU in 5536 and not on any external PCI bus.

But it still appears to be a PCI device, and it needs an interrupt.


> but, short form: on the cs5536, USB interrupts should not be described
> in the PIR table, but via settings derived from dts. They should be
> initialized in cs5536 setup code, no in the PIR setup code. That will
> allow us to have non-shared interrupts on the various PCI slots on,
> e.g., alix1c, and allow broken drivers like hfcpci to work.

Yep. Is good.


//Peter