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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH v2] kvm/openpic: in-kernel mpic support
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Alexander Graf |
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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH v2] kvm/openpic: in-kernel mpic support |
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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:56:22 +0200 |
On 12.06.2013, at 22:32, Scott Wood wrote:
> Enables support for the in-kernel MPIC that thas been merged into the
> KVM next branch. This includes irqfd/KVM_IRQ_LINE support from Alex
> Graf (along with some other improvements).
>
> Note from Alex regarding kvm_irqchip_create():
>
> On x86, one would call kvm_irqchip_create() to initialize an
> in-kernel interrupt controller. That function then goes ahead and
> initializes global capability variables as well as the default irq
> routing table.
>
> On ppc, we can't call kvm_irqchip_create() because we can have
> different types of interrupt controllers. So we want to do all the
> things that function would do for us in the in-kernel device init
> handler.
>
> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <address@hidden>
Thanks, applied to ppc-next.
Alex
[Qemu-ppc] [PATCH ppc-next fixup] intc/openpic_kvm: Fix QOM and build issues, Andreas Färber, 2013/06/16
Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] kvm/openpic: in-kernel mpic support, Andreas Färber, 2013/06/16