On Tue, 2016-05-31 at 12:48 +1000, Rashmica wrote: > On 31/05/16 11:34, Rashmica wrote: > > On 30/05/16 17:32, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > On Mon, 2016-05-30 at 16:18 +1000, Rashmica Gupta wrote: > > > > MPIC was only used by Power3 which is now unsupported, so drop support > > > > for MPIC. XICS is now the only supported interrupt controller for > > > > pSeries so make the XICS functions generic. > > > The second half I'm not sure ... XIVE is around the corner... > > > > > I thought XIVE was replacing XICS? And so then we can just simply > > replace all the specific XICS code such as xics_init() and > > xics_smp_probe() with the relevant XIVE functions? > > > > By "make the XICS functions generic" I meant that if there is only one > > interrupt controller for pseries then we don't need to have both > > static void __init pseries_xics_init_IRQ(void) and static void __init > > pSeries_init_IRQ(void), etc. > > Oliver just informed me that it is only replacing XICS for p9. Should I > leave this for the person adding in the XIVE code?
I haven't heard of this "XIVE" thing but anyway .. I would hope we can come up with a better abstraction than this for XICS/XIVE, so I'm inclined to merge this anyway. Worst case we end up putting some of it back. cheers _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
