Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Introduce a new bus "ICC" to connect APIC

[Jan Kiszka]

On 2011-10-23 14:40, Blue Swirl wrote:
> I'm not sure that a full bus is needed for now, even if it could match
> real HW better, since the memory API already provides the separation
> needed. Perhaps this would be needed later to make IRQs per-CPU also,
> or to put IOAPIC also to the bus?

The ICC interconnects LAPICs and IOAPICs. So it should next take over
the management of the local_apics array from apic.c and the ioapics
array from ioapic.c. It could implement generic message delivery
services. Every bus participant would then have a reception handler that
first checks the type and additional fields of a generic ICC message
and, on match, forwards it to the corresponding device model functions.
That would allow for something nicer than global apic_deliver_irq or
ioapic_eoi_broadcast.

That's clearly beyond the scope of this series but a good reason to
model the ICC as accurately as qdev allows right from the start.

Jan

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