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Re: 5.99.30 sparc panic during startup



On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 04:43:07AM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> > Somebody should fix the driver so that zshard() does not call
> > device_lookup_private().  It seems entirely unnecessary.
> 
> There is a dumb hack in sun3 derived zs driver.
> 
> All zs devices on sun machines have the same interrupt sources
> so ancient zs drivers tried to reduce overhead on interrupts
> by sharing one interrupt handler among all zs devices.
> 
> We can simpley fix it to make it call softint_establish() and
> bus_intr_establish() per each zs device, as macppc and news68k etc. do.

Are you able to write the patch and test it?

Dave

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