x86, pic: Introduce legacy_pic abstraction
authorJacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@intel.com>
Mon, 9 Nov 2009 19:24:14 +0000 (11:24 -0800)
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:25:17 +0000 (16:25 -0800)
This patch makes i8259A like legacy programmable interrupt controller
code into a driver so that legacy pic functions can be selected at
runtime based on platform information, such as HW subarchitecure ID.
Default structure of legacy_pic maintains the current code path for
x86pc.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <43F901BD926A4E43B106BF17856F07559FB80D03@orsmsx508.amr.corp.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

No differences found