svn commit: r301453 - in head/sys: arm/arm arm64/arm64 dev/fdt dev/gpio dev/iicbus dev/ofw dev/pci dev/vnic kern mips/mips sys

[Adrian Chadd]

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Hi,

I think a lot of this whole discussion stems from a reasonably unclear
shared idea of where intrng is supposed to be going and what it's
supposed to be doing. I'm sure everyone has their own ideas of what it
is for their own needs, but this thread shows a clear separation
between the original writers and people working on supporting their
own platforms.

So, my suggestion - also so I can understand it, since I kinda need it
now for the atheros mips ports! - is maybe something gets written up
in the wiki that's a more detailed technical overview of intrng,
including the problems its trying to solve. Then, instead of flinging
things around on the commit mailing list, people edit the wiki and
discuss on -arm about the specific details.

I think that'll avoid a lot of what's going on.

(And honestly, I'd like it more sorted out sooner rather than later,
as I really want to start attacking the QCA ARM ports (IPQ4019) if
it's not already done, and that's all interrupt/gpio/etc gymnastics we
need INTRNG for.)

So, Nathan, wanna start a wiki page with the /current/ implementation
that's in -HEAD and what the intention was from the PPC side?



-adrian