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Re: [PATCH 1/5] m68k/atari: EtherNAT - change number of Atari interrupts to make room for EtherNAT interrupts



Hi Michael,

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 00:44, Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Part 1 (this): make room for the EtherNAT interrupts - they appear at
>>> vectors 0xc3 (USB ISP1160) and 0xc4 (SMC91C111)
>>
>> Is there any specific reason you cannot use atari_register_vme_int(), like
>> drivers/net/ethernet/amd/atarilance.c, to avoid increasing NR_IRQS?
>
> From what I read in atari_register_vme_int(), it returns the next free
> VME interrupt starting at VME_SOURCE_BASE. This required the vector
> number to be programmable in the correspomding VME device.
>
> To the best of my knowledge, vector numbers are fixed (0xc3 and 0xc4)
> for the EtherNAT.

OK. If they are fixed, there's nothing we can do about that.

> I definitely need to increase NR_IRQS - it might be better to leave
> VME_MAX_SOURCES unchanged and change the NUM_ATARI_SOURCES definition
> above instead.
>
> I'm uncertain whether the complicated definition of NUM_ATARI_SOURCES
> is needed anymore - are the IRQ_VECTOR_TO_SOURCE and
> IRQ_SOURCE_TO_VECTOR macros still used anywhere?

Only the latter:

drivers/net/ethernet/amd/atarilance.c:          IO->ivec =
IRQ_SOURCE_TO_VECTOR(dev->irq);
drivers/net/ethernet/amd/atarilance.c:          *RIEBL_IVEC_ADDR =
IRQ_SOURCE_TO_VECTOR(dev->irq);


Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
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