[OpenBIOS] [PATCH] Make interrupts work on newworld machines

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 10:26 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> And that encoding depends on what the parent PIC is. I don't think the
> drivers should setup their own interrupt properties that way anyways.
> 
> Platform code in forth should layout that stuff. Where does that 0x24
> come from anyways ? It's just arbitrary crap. Nothing to do in the escc
> driver itself.

More specifically, in the case of macs, the ESCC, along with a lot of
other devices, is part of the "macio" asic. There's various families and
generations of these, though we probably really only care about
heathrow, keylargo and K2.

How those interrupts are routed (and in fact the PIC itself) are a
property of the ASIC.

Thus the "ASIC" driver (again, it should be a bit of f-code that binds
all that together) should layout the interrupt wiring for a given chip.

Now the interesting thing is that in large part that routing information
ends up being duplicated: in qemu to emulate the ASIC and in OpenBIOS.

Thus, maybe a "smart" thing to do here would be to have a representation
inside qemu of the "bindings" (interrupt, address, driver maps) of a
given macio-asic, that openbios can suck out using a private call and
use to construct the device-tree. Or we could have qemu -itself- get fed
a device-tree, use it to instanciate the HW devices and pass it along to
openbios :-) That would also allow openbios-less booting using epapr on
ppc which is handy.

Cheers,
Ben.