Re: pci_write_config_byte question..

[John Clemens]

On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Russell King wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 12:48:24PM -0500, John Clemens wrote:
> > I've been hacking some PCI code to get USB working on my laptop.  I need
> > to change PCI config space to use IRQ 11 for the device instead of IRQ 9.
>
> Changing interrupts is non-trivial, especially on x86.

nod.  But it can be done in this case.. its just i have to call 'setpci'
from user space to change the interrupt line manually before i modeprobe
usb-ohci.  I thought pci_write_config_byte should take care of that.

for a complete rundown of what i'm doing, please see my earlier post which
garnered no responses whatsoever:

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0111.2/0005.html

> The kernel caches a copy of the IRQ number register.  The IRQ number
> register (PCI_INTERRUPT_LINE) is just like RAM - you can read it, you
> can write it.  However, it has no hardware side effects however. It's
> sole purpose in life is to communicate the IRQ number from the POST
> (which knows how the interrupts are arranged) to the driver.

so is there a kernel call I can use to actually twiddle the bits?

john.c

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