Subject: Re: Pegasos port status
To: Jochen Kunz <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Acereda_Maci=E1?= <jacereda@gmail.com>
List: port-powerpc
Date: 07/18/2006 02:22:52
Jochen Kunz wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:22:35 +0200
> Jorge Acereda Maciá <jacereda@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>OFW also provides interrupt handling.
>
> How? AFAIK OFW provides interrupt mapping information via the properties
> of device nodes. But there is no generic interrupt interface. (E.g. OFW
> calls OS back if a device has signaled an interrupt or the like.) That
> is why port ofppc runs so slow. All OFW device drivers use polling.
Hmmm... I thought there was a proposal to allow setting interrupt
callbacks, but I've been searching for it without success. So probably
it doesn't exist :-)