On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > Hmm, the assumption might be justifiable for the i386 only? Shouldn't > > i8259.c be fixed instead? > > These are the ISA interrupts; many drivers make assumptions about the > interrupts numbers, so we can't really change the numbers anyway. For > any non-ISA interrupt it's number can be choosen freely. I don't think such assumptions are sane even for the i386 -- an I/O APIC system is free to route ISA interrupts to whichever I/O APIC inputs are available, not necessarily the low 16. The Intel MP Spec explicitly allows such a setup -- ISA interrupts are only tied in default configurations, which are rarely used (probably not at all these days). Anyway, only the drivers that read an IRQ number from jumpers or Flash memory need to be checked, and these are a minority (3Com Ethernet cards and possibly very few others). These that do probing (with probe_irq) or simply take the number from an option will work automatically. While I agree for 2.4 it might be not the best idea to do such changes, for 2.5 it's worth considering, isn't it? -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
