Re: [PATCH] deal with lack of acpi prt entries gracefully

From: Andrew de Quincey
Date: Thu Sep 11 2003 - 17:03:11 EST


On Thursday 11 Sep 2003 10:20 pm, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 10:13:13PM +0100, Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> > > That might work, though I'll be using the ACPI namespace to drive PCI
> > > discovery soon (hacking the PROM now). Maybe I should add some MADT
> > > and _PRT entries while I'm at it? The problem is that we don't support
> > > IOAPIC or IOSAPIC interrupt models/hw registers.
> >
> > Which base architecture do you use? x86 and x86_64 ACPI now both support
> > PIC based interrupt models.. as thats the only other option AFAIK (It
> > tries IOAPIC first, then if that fails, it drops back to trying PIC
> > mode).
>
> None of the above. We have our own NUMAlink based interrupt protocol
> model.

Oooer! Hmm, the existing code would probably NOT like having _PRT entries for
a model it doesn't know about.... you could add support for it fairly easily
though I suppose...

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