Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Jan 2009 13:57:04 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: irqnr fallout in gpiolib on sparc32 |
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* David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> > Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 14:55:08 +0100 > > > * Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote: > > > > > Dave has mentioned this but we are not working actively on it yet. > > > > would be cool to do it - i think sparc32 is one of the last major > > physical architectures to not be on genirq - > > m68k remains to be converted over to genirq as well
yeah - but m68k has been a holdout from pretty much every optional core kernel facility that has been introduced in the past 5-10 years. So if sparc32 converts to genirq we have a stronger case for saying:
"Convert, else ..."
[ where the three dots stands for something not nice. ]
Sparc32 on the other hand had a clean IRQ layer long before x86 found its desire for a clean genirq layer - so genirq is a nuisance for Sparc32 at best and it deserves none of the not nice actions. What i am hoping for is that perhaps the Sparc unification changed that equation.
Ingo
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