Subject: Re: interrupts
To: None <port-mips@netbsd.org, fredg@DotCom.FR>
From: Toru Nishimura <nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp>
List: port-mips
Date: 08/09/2000 19:58:28
>> Check and see cpu_intr()::cobalt/cobalt/machdep.c as a minimalist example.
>
> I have already looked at it, and I confess I don't  really understand what he
> does : he uses a magic number 0x14000c18, transforms it into a kseg1 address,
> and checks that the bit 8 is on.
> Well, I confess it seems a little obscure to me.
> What does this address mean ?

It seems NetBSD/cobalt uses Galileo-T's GT64011 PCI system controller
to feed hardclock(), while CPU generated INT_5 for statclock() which
is #if 0'ed out. 

Tohru Nishimura
Nara Institute of Science and Technology