Re: [RFC] GIC/IRQ related patches

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On 20/06/14 15:14, Joel Schopp wrote:
> On a related note I've just joined AMD and am working on enabling kvm on
> an aarch64 SOC with a gic-400.  Looking at upstream it appears that only
> the cortex-a15-gic has been merged before on arm. I expect enabling the

cortex-a15-gic is actually kind of a misnomer for a generic GICv2. So
any generic GICv2 (or GIC-400) should be named like this and it should
work. It definitely does on the ARM hardware I have here.

> gic400 virtualization bits will be a small mount of code compared to
> your GICv3 changes, but thought I'd chime in as I'd be happy to be ccd
> on and review any gic related patches.

Is there any specific issue you are encountering?

Cheers,
Andre.

>
> -Joel
>
> On 06/20/2014 04:38 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Over the past few weeks/months, we've seen a flurry of GIC or IRQ
>> related patches, and I can safely predict more to come:
>>
>> - New HW support [GICv3 host support, me][GICv3 guest support, Andre]
>> - Refactoring [cleanups, Christoffer][vgic-dyn, me]
>> - New features [irqfd support, Eric][VFIO platform, Antonios]
>>                 [VFIO PCI, Will][direct IRQ EOI, me]
>>
>> This is starting to give me a bit of a headache, and I'd like to
>> organise things a bit more - there are obvious overlaps between the
>> various bits, and I'd like everyone to understand what everyone is doing.
>>
>> Can we discuss this, either on the list or over a call?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>      M.
>
>

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