Re: in-kernel interrupt controller steering

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Am 06.03.2013 um 19:46 schrieb Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> On 6 March 2013 22:31, Alexander Graf <agraf@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 06.03.2013, at 15:11, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>>> KVM_INTERRUPT is synchronous.
>> 
>> Ah, I think that's where my thinko is. On PPC, KVM_INTERRUPT is
>> asynchronous.
> 
> As an aside, would it be worth moving PPC into line with other
> archs by providing and using a KVM_IRQ_LINE for async
> interrupts (ie continuing to provide an asynchronous KVM_INTERRUPT
> but only as a deprecated backward compatibility thing) ?

Since we need to maintain backwards compatibility anyways, I don't think it makes sense and would only clutter the code :)

Alex

> 
> -- PMM
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