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

[Olaf Dabrunz]

On 14-Jul-08, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * 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 ...

Ack. :)

Thanks,

-- 
Olaf Dabrunz (od/odabrunz), SUSE Linux Products GmbH, NÃrnberg

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