[parisc-linux] EISA support
Grant Grundler
grundler@puffin.external.hp.com
Wed, 10 Oct 2001 21:56:44 -0600
Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> I have a plan to allocate Mongoose's IRQ in a nicer way, but that will
> have to wait until tomorrow. What do you think the best way would be
> to fix EISA card IRQs? I have a couple of thoughts:
>
> * Introduce a new EISA_IRQ_BASE macro that most architectures
> define to 0.
I don't know what other archs do or how hard that would be to drive
into the other arches.
> * Reserve IRQ region 0 for EISA
reserve IRQ region 0 for EISA.
It's reserved now to catch broken PCI drivers that treat the IRQ number
as a byte instead of an int. So for machines w/o EISA, it could
continue to remain reserved for that purpose.
grant