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Date:      Fri, 23 Feb 2018 20:46:58 -0800
From:      Oleksandr Tymoshenko <gonzo@bluezbox.com>
To:        Jon Brawn <jon@brawn.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: INTRNG
Message-ID:  <20180224044658.GA1384@bluezbox.com>
In-Reply-To: <401A33BD-F3AE-4139-9D47-6F85C8333022@brawn.org>
References:  <401A33BD-F3AE-4139-9D47-6F85C8333022@brawn.org>

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Jon Brawn (jon@brawn.org) wrote:
> Wotcha Gang!
> 
> In my travels through the arm64 GENERIC config file I came across the option ‘INTRNG’, and wondered what it was:
> 
> INTeRrupt Next Generation?
> INTeger Random Number Generator?
> IN TRaiNinG?
> INTerrupt Random Number Generator?
> INdependent TRaiNinG?
> 
> So, please put me out of my misery, what does INTRNG stand for, and what are its implications when selected vs not selected?

"INTeRrupt Next Generation". It's a framework to manage complex interrupt
routing cases. I think it's required for all recent ARM platforms,
you can't disable it for ARM64. It can be disabled for older
ARM/MIPS platforms that use old-style interrupt cascading.

-- 
gonzo



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