Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 3/9] provide in-kernel ioapic

[Gleb Natapov]

On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 06:17:57PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 10/08/2009 06:07 PM, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> >Haven't we already confirmed that it *isn't* just an ioapic accelerator
> >because you can't migrate between in-kernel iopic and qemu's ioapic?
> 
> We haven't confirmed it.  Both implement the same spec, and if you
> can't migrate between them, one of them has a bug (for example, qemu
> ioapic doesn't implement polarity - but it's still just a bug).
> 
Are you saying that HW spec (that only describes software visible behavior)
completely defines implementation? No other internal state is needed
that may be done differently by different implementations?

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                        Gleb.