Re: [PATCH 0/3] Boot IRQ quirks for Broadcom and AMD/ATI

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Jul 14 2008 - 12:46:20 EST



* Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 ...

Ingo
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