Re: Bugfixes: PCI devices get assigned redundant IRQs

From: Andreas Block
Date: Fri Jan 26 2007 - 08:05:47 EST


On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:00:55 +0100, Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 11:50 +0100, Andreas Block wrote:

u8 pin, slot;
- int irq;
+ int irq = 0;

Aren't there platforms for which irq = 0 is a valid irq ?

As far as I understand the PCI spec, the answer to your question seems to be: no
(or I'm missing something).

Don't get me wrong. I'm not talking about system IRQs, but about the value of the Interrupt Pin Register in PCI configuration space.

The PCI Local Bus Specification in Revision 3.0 from 3rd February 2004 says on page 223 about the content of Interrupt Pin register:

Value 0x00: _No_ interrupt
Values 0x01 to 0x04: Interrupt lines A to D
And values 5 to 0xFF are reserved.

So I'd say, the "correction" of greater values than four to a value of one seems discussable, too. Because it will break any future changes of the PCI spec.

Andreas

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