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Re: [Qemu-devel] smc91x irq patch
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Paul Brook |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] smc91x irq patch |
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Wed, 19 Jul 2006 04:29:22 +0100 |
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On Tuesday 18 July 2006 18:03, Thorsten Zitterell wrote:
> I am working on a Gumstix system [1] emulation for QEMU which is based
> on a Intel XScale processor. The board has an expansion card for network
> support which is a smc91x compatible NIC. However, the irq line is not
> directly connected to the processor's interrupt controller but to an
> GPIO which triggers an irq when a level edge is detected.
As discussed on IRC this is the wrong way to do this. Instead use the
mechanisms in arm_pic.[ch] and make you GPIO emulation look like an interrupt
controller.
There's no point passing round both a pic callback and an object when we can
embed the callback in the object.
Paul