Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:42:49 -0800 | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sparse_irq aka dyn_irq v13 | |
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> IRQ numbers are arbitrary, some platforms make up numbers out of the
> blue, or they can be hypervisor internal tokens etc...
>
> The only sane way to handle this generically IMHO is to do what we do
> on powerpc (and I think sparc64) which is to totally disconnect the HW
> number from the "linux" number.
>
Yes, that's what I want to see, too. On x86, it's important to preserve
the first 16 (BIOS-compatible, XT-PIC) numbers, as they are widely used
as a user interface, but for the rest, there is no point.
It is probably desirable to do that by overlaying the first (primary,
south bridge) IO-APIC, which also takes care of the "semi-legacy" IRQ
16-23 numbers.
-hpa
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