Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/9] in-kernel irqchip, new spin

[Glauber Costa]

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Avi Kivity <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 12/03/2009 02:39 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>>
>>> Right now there are no knobs to disable it, since last time I checked,
>>> people were inclined to
>>> solve that by adding a machine type that does not do irqchip in
>>> kernel, if wanted.
>>>
>>
>> Can't everything doable by machine type also doable from
>> command line switch? Disabling irqchip used to be
>> a valuable debugging tool.
>>
>>
>
> Even worse, if we throw everything into the the machine type, we end up with
> 2^n machine types in order to control everything.

I am totally fine re-including the cmdline patch in the series.



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