lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2004]   [Sep]   [9]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
SubjectRe: [patch] generic-hardirqs.patch, 2.6.9-rc1-bk14
From
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 02:12:17PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:05:52PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > is there any architecture that cannot make use of kernel/hardirq.c _at
> > all_?
>
> s390 doesn't need it at all because it doesn't have the concept of hardirqs.
>
> At least arm{,26}, m68k{,nommu} and parisc and sparc{,64} use extremly
> different models for irq handling

They're not irreparably different, though (at least, not all of
them); we had generic IRQ code (with threads) running in our 2.4
kernel on arm and sparc64.

-Scott
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 14:06    [W:0.170 / U:0.032 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site