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

[Jesse Barnes]

On Monday, July 14, 2008 9:49 am Olaf Dabrunz wrote:
> 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. :)

Sounds good, thanks.  Now to get my merge bits pulled together & tested...

Jesse
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