Re: FirePower (was Re: TODO list for ofppc)

Matt Sealey <[email protected]> Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:16:08 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.ofppc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Tim Rightnour wrote:
> On 25-Jan-2008 Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
>> panic: intr_establish: bogus IRQ 25, max is -1
> 
> (Awesome work up to that point, everything looked great)
> 
> So.. two things about this concern me.  First, when I looked through your
> firepower OFW dump, I never saw anything labeled as an interrupt controller. 
> So, it never wired one up.  I guess you will have to throw an extra quirk in
> for this machine to assume it has an 8259.  (at least, I'm assuming thats what
> it uses here)

If it's CHRP it should be OpenPIC.

There may be an i8259 interrupt controller chained off it, but I think you
could assume the Motorola OF boxes are CHRP compatible in that sense..

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Matt Sealey <[email protected]>
Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations