From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] xen/arm: ignore writes to GICD_ICACTIVER
 ... GICD_ICACTIVERN
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 13:25:41 +0000
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On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 17:21 +0000, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> Injecting a fault to the guest just because it is writing to one of the
> GICD_ICACTIVER registers, which are part of the GICv2 and GICv3 specs,
> is harsh. Additionally it causes recent linux kernels to fail to boot on
> Xen.
> 
> Ignore writes to GICD_ICACTIVER ... GICD_ICACTIVERN instead, to solve
> the boot issue and for backportability. However implementing the
> registers properly might a better long term solution.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>

Acked + applied.