Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] kvm/openpic: in-kernel mpic support

[Alexander Graf]

On 12.06.2013, at 22:32, Scott Wood wrote:

> Enables support for the in-kernel MPIC that thas been merged into the
> KVM next branch.  This includes irqfd/KVM_IRQ_LINE support from Alex
> Graf (along with some other improvements).
> 
> Note from Alex regarding kvm_irqchip_create():
> 
>  On x86, one would call kvm_irqchip_create() to initialize an
>  in-kernel interrupt controller.  That function then goes ahead and
>  initializes global capability variables as well as the default irq
>  routing table.
> 
>  On ppc, we can't call kvm_irqchip_create() because we can have
>  different types of interrupt controllers.  So we want to do all the
>  things that function would do for us in the in-kernel device init
>  handler.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <address@hidden>

Thanks, applied to ppc-next.


Alex