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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 08:28:03 +0200
From: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
xiujianfeng@...wei.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
alvaro.karsz@...id-run.com, "Jason Wang" <jasowang@...hat.com>,
angus.chen@...uarmicro.com, wangdeming@...pur.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
"Bjorn Helgaas" <bhelgaas@...gle.com>, lingshan.zhu@...el.com,
linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, gavinl@...dia.com
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] virtio: fixes, features
On Thu, Oct 13, 2022, at 12:08 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 11:06:54PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2022, at 7:22 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> >
>> > The NO_IRQ thing is mainly actually defined by a few drivers that just
>> > never got converted to the proper world order, and even then you can
>> > see the confusion (ie some drivers use "-1", others use "0", and yet
>> > others use "((unsigned int)(-1)".
>>
>> The last time I looked at removing it for arch/arm/, one problem was
>> that there were a number of platforms using IRQ 0 as a valid number.
>> We have converted most of them in the meantime, leaving now only
>> mach-rpc and mach-footbridge. For the other platforms, we just
>> renumbered all interrupts to add one, but footbridge apparently
>> relies on hardcoded ISA interrupts in device drivers. For rpc,
>> it looks like IRQ 0 (printer) already wouldn't work, and it
>> looks like there was never a driver referencing it either.
>
> Do these two boxes even have pci?
Footbridge/netwinder has PCI and PC-style ISA on-board devices
(floppy, ps2 mouse/keyboard, parport, soundblaster, ...), RiscPC
has neither.
Arnd
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