Re: Pegasos port status

[Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost>]

Jorge Acereda Maciá wrote:
> Jochen Kunz wrote:
>> On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:22:35 +0200
>> Jorge Acereda Maciá <jacereda%gmail.com@localhost> 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 :-)

If OFW implements RAS (from CHRP), then that would make things implementation
independent.
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