Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:13:54 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: PERFORCE change 36551 for review Message-ID: <XFMail.20030822151354.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030822180604.GB849@dhcp42.pn.xcllnt.net>
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On 22-Aug-2003 Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 12:54:14PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: >> >> > Going to the source: in acpi_parse_resources() we need to create >> > a callback to MD code to tell it about polarity and mode. This >> > means tweaking the ACPI_RSTYPE_IRQ or ACPI_RSTYPE_EXT_IRQ cases. >> > Better would be to create bus methods for this (see for example >> > acpi_res_set_irq()). >> >> Yes. For i386 definitely it would make sense to have a bus method >> that bubbles back up to the nexus(4) and eventually calls the >> MD interrupt code. Maybe some kind of interrupt properties kobj >> interface: > > The impact of a seperate KOBJ interface is probably large. I can't > think of a use of this object that's unrelated to the bus object. > If we do have such an use, then it should probably be a seperate > interface, otherwise I think we should just add new methods to the > bus interface. > > I first need to finish a couple of other things, but then I can > spend some time on it. Don't wait for me :-) My only concern is that I'm afraid this isn't a very MI interface, but bus is probably an ok place for it for now. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/
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