On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 21:06 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Wait wait wait .... Can somebody (Ingo ?) explain me why the fasteoi > > handler is being changed and what is the rationale for adding an ack > > that was not necessary before ? > > dont worry, it's -rt only stuff.
Still, I'm curious :-) Besides, there have been people talking about having -rt work on ppc64 so ... What do you need an ack() for on fasteoi ? On all fasteoi controllers I have, ack is implicit by obtaining the vector number and all there is is an eoi... Cheers, Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
