No interrupts coming to device driver.

[Alexander Nedotsukov]

Warner,

Unfortunately my BIOS do not allow IRQ reservation for ISA devices. But 
in I noticed Interrupt Mode menu with PIC/APIC options. This pushed me 
to go through another round of tests. First with PIC mode and back again 
with APIC but now with "device apic" added to kernel config. After  few 
attempts to use different IRQs I finally got interrupts on IRQ9. Well. 
This is good and I can move forward with driver. Though I still confused 
the way it done. I will be really appreciated if some good will explain 
me what is behind all this woodoo I did. Is it necessary to have "device 
apic" today? And still what is the nature of those ?lost in hardware? 
interrupts?
BTW. Here is a quote from dmesg which may be connected to the case.

ACPI APIC Table: <ASUS   P4SQ    >
ioapic0 <Version 8.0> irqs 0-23 on motherboard
acpi0: Overriding SCI Interrupt from IRQ 9 to IRQ 20

Another bits of info. Windows automagically assigns IRQ7 to device and 
works fine. But I can not use IRQ7 on FreeBSD even with "device apic" in 
kernel. I do have hardware which is not in use ATM (PCI TV card). But I 
do not have any driver installed on Windows too. So if this is the case 
Windows somehow makes better guess of what driver can use.

Anyway thanks everyone who tried to help!

All the best,
Alexander.

M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <437309BD.7010704 at FreeBSD.org>
>             Alexander Nedotsukov <bland at freebsd.org> writes:
> : I trying to create small lirc (www.lirc.org) compatible CIR driver for 
> : it8705 chip (sits on ISA bus). My problem is I can not get interrupts 
> : coming to driver. I believe I configured chip (carrier freq. + baudrate 
> : divisor) and enabled interrupt mode the same way it windows driver does. 
> : It also seems to be correct according to chip specs. But nothing. vmstat 
> : -i shows zeros for assigned irq. And my IRS stay cold. I wrote small 
> : userland program which polls CIRs IIR (interrupt identefication 
> : register) and it shows interrupt pending bit set on right after I press 
> : key on remote control. Looks like I missed something fundamental. Does 
> : anyone can give me a hint where to look?
>
> If it is on the ISA bus, then you can look at the IRQ line that you
> are using for this card on the scope.  Set it to trigger on an edge
> (either falling if the signal is high or rising if the signal is low,
> usually it is high).
>
> Make sure that the IRQ that you are using is not shared with anything
> else, even hardware you aren't using.  That's forbidden in the ISA
> world (although some hacks exist to do interrupt sharing with two
> devices on the ISA bus, (a) almost nobody does them and (b) they don't
> work when sharing with pci).
>
> Make sure that the IRQ is set in the BIOS as Legacy/ISA rather than
> ISAPNP/PCI (or some variants of those phrases).
>
> See if there's a way to force an interrupt on the chip by writing to a
> register of some sort.  It doesn't matter if you are going to use
> this, but it will be good for testing.
>
> It almost certainly isn't an unacknowledged interrupt (unless it is
> left over from before your chip reset).  In my experience, those cause
> vmstat of 1.  It might be worth checking the chip initialization
> sequence to make sure that you clear any possible interrupts AFTER
> you've done the bus_setup_inter() call to register your interrupt
> handler.
>
> That's all I can think of at the moment, but it should keep you busy
> for a few hours :-)
>
> Warner
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