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Date:      Fri, 22 Jan 1999 22:21:23 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, "Gary T. Corcoran" <garycor@home.com>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Reclaiming irqs for unsupported PCI hardware? 
Message-ID:  <5072.917040083@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 22 Jan 1999 12:50:15 MST." <199901221950.MAA22394@mt.sri.com> 

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In message <199901221950.MAA22394@mt.sri.com>, Nate Williams writes:
>> > > > Sure it does.  IRQ's are no longer generated on that piece of hardware,
>> > > > but it's possible that the IRQ routine was in the middle of processing
>> > > > the previous (valid) IRQ that was generated 'just prior' to the removal.
>> > > 
>> > > Uh, it's also possible for the removal itself to generate an interrupt 
>> > > - I had this 100% repeatable on the Sharp I used to use.
>> > 
>> > Right, but this does not work reliably on all PCIC controllers.  It
>> > works on mine, but I know a number of controllers it does not work on
>> > (for whatever reason).
>> 
>> Sorry, you're missing my point - the removal causes a *card* interrupt, 
>> not a PCIC interrupt.
>
>Ah, gotcha. FWIW, supposedly the PCIC interrupt supercedes the card
>interrupt in the current code. :)

Yes, but that doesn't help you if the current context is a section of code
with interrupts masked/disabled...

Anyway, I belive that the "->gone" hack in sio.c is probably as
far as it pays to go down this path anyway.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!

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