Re: Interrupts on the GameCube

Franck <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ports.game-cube.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
erf, the message has forked :/

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 18:19:46 +0100, Richard Eng wrote:
> I really prefer the two-level Linux way of doing it, simply because I think
> it's
> more clean. I my opinion the first level should not be aware of the
> different
> interrupts for the different devices. This should be up to the specific
> driver to deal with.
> Isn't it quite obvious that it's up to the second level dvd driver (or
> whatever driver) to find out if it's a
> dvd_transfer_complete or a dvd_transfer_error interrupt?
> 

I agree with that, and even if the numbers of interrupts are fixed and
there's no way to add foreign hardware, we should keep the Linux way to
handle interrupts...

> This is just my point of view anyway....

 And mine, but we need more opinions about that, the drivers part depends
 on that and we should take care of it ;)

Franck



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