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Date:      Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:21:14 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        lev@freebsd.org
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Intel D2500CC motherboard and strange RS232/UART behavior
Message-ID:  <CAJ-Vmon%2BCym=_h%2BRtC-HrUdcAgMQpn_RuFwE867-T4UTQ0jVXg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1659145198.20130410102838@serebryakov.spb.ru>
References:  <229402991.20130407172016@serebryakov.spb.ru> <201304091608.09257.jhb@freebsd.org> <105818341.20130410004451@serebryakov.spb.ru> <201304091658.22810.jhb@freebsd.org> <1659145198.20130410102838@serebryakov.spb.ru>

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On 9 April 2013 23:28, Lev Serebryakov <lev@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hello, John.
> You wrote 10 =D0=B0=D0=BF=D1=80=D0=B5=D0=BB=D1=8F 2013 =D0=B3., 0:58:22:
>
>>>   Problem is, that every uart device now is independent from each
>>>   other in good "OOP" style, and it looks like interrupt sharing we
>>>   need one interrupt handler per irq (not per device), which will now
>>>   about several UARTs. Something like "multiport" device, bot not
>>>   exactly.
> JB> No, the interrupt code itself will handle shared interrupts (it will
> JB> call all handlers).  I think in practice that uart is setting
>   And what will happen, if there is two UARTs asserting interrupt in
> same time? First one returns "FILTER_HANDLED", will second handler be
> called?
>
>   ISA interrupt sharing IS NOT so simple. sio contains a lot of
>  obscure code to work.

.. surely it's solvable with a bit of ugliness?

Eg, looping over them until they all return "not handled" or you hit a
limit, or something equally ew.

.. assuming that it is broken in the first place, that is.



Adrian



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