Re: [STRAWMAN PATCH] KVM: PPC: Add ioctl to specify interrupt controller architecture to emulate

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On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 12:04:30PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 08.03.2013 um 11:37 schrieb Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > I have
> > used the first argument (cap->args[0]) to specify which interrupt
> > controller you want to connect the vcpu to.
> 
> Ah, nice idea. So you basically make the vcpu connection explicit. Perfect! Then just pass the interrupt controller pin id in cap->args[1] so we don't need to guess which vcpu we're talking about and all is well :). No implicit assumptions left in the kernel.

By "pin", do you mean output pin of the interrupt controller, or input
pin of the CPU (i.e. external/debug/critical)?

Paul.
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