Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/33] gdbserver: Don't deliver TIMER interrupts when SSTEP_NOIRQ either.

[Blue Swirl]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Richard Henderson <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 04/29/2011 01:53 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
>>> +                                               CPU_INTERRUPT_TIMER |
>>
>> Grepping for CPU_INTERRUPT_TIMER shows that the flag isn't ever set,
>> only cleared or checked. How
>> about removing the flag instead?
>
> Certainly Sparc and MIPS shouldn't check it if they don't set it.

It's not used by any architecture now.

> For Alpha, I do want to easily discriminate between device, timer,
> and inter-processor interrupts.  I'm currently (ab)using the i386
> CPU_INTERRUPT_SMI name for the IPI; I could abuse, say, FIQ for
> my timer bit, but it seems nicer to simply keep the TIMER name.

Since Alpha would be the first user, you can even rename it if you like.