[ECOS] Re: Question on PCI Interrupt translation

[Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour@redhat.com>]

> Ling Su wrote:
> 
> Dear Jifl,
> 
> I have some question on the PCI interrupt translation, hope you can shed
> me some light. Thanks in advance!
> 
> In the PCI library docuement, there is a kernel API called
> cyg_pci_translate_interrupt(), it is used to translate the PCI interrupt
> requested by device to the accosiated CPU interrupt. When I read the
> Macro definiation in plf_io.h for NEC vrc4373, I didn't catch the idea of
> how to actually do the mapping. Supposely my PCI board can staticaly map
> to #INTA instead of #INTB - #INTD, right? so I needn't translate the
> interrupt, just allocate HAL INT11 to it, right?
> 
> Actually I follow what I described, I create the interrupt and hard wire
> it to IRQ 11, I can actually observe the falling edge of interrupt signal
> on the PCI bus, but I can not see the ISR and DSR are called. Did I miss
> anything important?

In principle, what you are describing sounds right to me, although I notice
the comment in plf_io.h:

// Translate the PCI interrupt requested by the device (INTA#, INTB#,
// INTC# or INTD#) to the associated CPU interrupt (i.e., HAL vector).
// We don't actually know what the mappings are at present for this
// board. The following is therefore just a temporary guess until
// we can find out.

You could try putting the interrupt handler on _all_ the PCI interrupts
just to be sure. If the mapping is wrong, let us know what the right one
is!
 
As you are guessing, it may just be a simple mistake in constructing the
ISR. Normally the steps are:

cyg_interrupt_create()
cyg_interrupt_attach()
cyg_interrupt_unmask()

and be sure to call cyg_interrupt_acknowledge() in the ISR.

> I read the test cases for intr, I didn't find an realistic sample to test
> the interrupt mechanism, since the test case just cover the function call
> part, not real interrupt is generated. Is there any working interrupt
> sample?

Any serial device driver. Also the kernel real time clock, although this
uses the internal C++ based interface.

Jifl
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