Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] irqchip/jcore-aic: Fix missing allocation of IRQ descriptors | From | John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <> | Date | Thu, 11 May 2023 11:03:01 +0200 |
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On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 09:47 +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote: > On Thu, 11 May 2023 08:22:20 +0100, > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > > > Hi Jason! > > ???
Sorry, I was confused by this:
> > > [- Jason] > > > > > > It really begs the question: how has it ever been working before? > > > > Users already used a locally patched kernel to work around this problem. > > You're not answering my question. Does it mean JCore never worked > upstream?
It did still work which is why the previously suggested change was to make a failing call to irq_alloc_descs() non-fatal. The boards still booted up.
> > > Is there any plan to modernise the port and get it to allocate > > > irq_descs on demand, as we do on most architectures? > > > > Yes, there are plans to modernize the port. We're first working on > > upstreaming all kinds of patches that have been queuing up over the > > time. > > I'd rather you skip that step and focus on making it work as a modern > architecture. This really looks like ARM circa 2007... :-/
We have a patch-set for switching it to device tree in the pipeline.
Adrian
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