Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/9] disentangle NVIC from ARM GIC

[Peter Maydell]

On 2 May 2012 18:12, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> This patch series refactors the ARMv7M NVIC so it no longer
> textually includes arm_gic.c Instead we have a single common
> base class which has the state struct, and a subclass for
> the GIC and another for the NVIC.
>
> As well as being generally rather nicer, this lays the
> groundwork for supporting a KVM in-kernel irqchip by
> getting the NVIC out of our hair. (My current KVM support
> code is another couple of patches on top of this which add
> a third subclass of ARMGICCommon which is the KVM model.)
>
> (Not intended for 1.1, but I expect I'll put it into my
> arm-devs.next tree to go a pullreq after master reopens
> for 1.2.)

Just a reminder that unless anybody wants to review this series
it's going to go in shortly after master reopens.

-- PMM