On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Alexander Graf <agraf@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/14/2012 02:04 AM, Christoffer Dall wrote: >> >> *** warning: this RFC patch series is only compile-tested *** >> >> We need a way to specify the address at which we expect VMs to access >> the interrupt controller (both the emulated distributor and the hardware >> interface supporting virtualization). User space should decide on this >> address as user space decides on an emulated board and loads a device >> tree describing these details directly to the guest. >> >> Instead of modifying the copying KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP to an ARM specific >> ioctl with a a highly device specific set of parameters, we try >> something slightly more generic, that should fit well with how user >> space (read QEMU) first builds the individual devices and later sets up >> the emulated platform. > > > Have you talked to Ben about this one? He wanted to design a new, more > flexible irqchip API that would work for XICS & MPIC. Maybe there's some > room for cooperation here? > I have not - Ben, what do you have in mind? -Christoffer -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
