Messages in this thread | | | From | Jesse Barnes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] Boot IRQ quirks for Broadcom and AMD/ATI | Date | Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:56:29 -0700 |
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On Monday, July 14, 2008 9:49 am Olaf Dabrunz wrote: > On 14-Jul-08, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> wrote: > > > > applied to tip/x86/pci-ioapic-boot-irq-quirks, thanks Olaf. > > > > > > > > Jesse, what do you think about this topic? We are keeping it > > > > separate for the time being. They are not particularly pretty, but > > > > being able to mask/unmask irqs (without generating those legacy IRQs > > > > and creating an IRQ storm) is essential to -rt. > > > > > > See my other reply; the branch looks good. I agree that making sure > > > -rt can work is an important feature. My only concern is that this is > > > touching so much hardware specific code that *something* is likely to > > > break. But as long as Olaf & co. can help track down any issues, I'm > > > ok with it. > > > > ok. We'll cook it a bit more in tip/master and then send it over to you > > once all the dependent changes have gone upstream in the merge window, > > ok? I think it's v2.6.27 worthy stuff - nicely localized, sufficiently > > finegrained and any problems with it has to be debugged the hard way by > > exposing people to them ... > > Ack. :)
Sounds good, thanks. Now to get my merge bits pulled together & tested...
Jesse
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