Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Mar 2007 20:17:12 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: + stupid-hack-to-make-mainline-build.patch added to -mm tree |
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* Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> wrote:
> > Chris, would you like to work together on this? I don't know what > > Xen's requirements are for the APIC interface. Do you think we > > could come up with something that would fit both of our needs, and > > maybe also be usable for some of the subarch-specific code? > > Sure, we just have a pretty small genapic_xen, and then enough > (hackery, this should be sorted out) to use that genapic and have an > effective override for __send_IPI_shortcut.
genapic is still too lowlevel: as Thomas mentioned what we want is a virtual interrupt controller used by /all/ hypervisors (and mapped to their respective hypervisor ABIs via the backend).
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