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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: msi irq allocation api
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 11:09:06 +0100
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On Wednesday 20 May 2009, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> define api for allocating/setting up msi-x irqs, and for updating them
> with msi-x vector information, supply implementation in ioapic. Please
> comment on this API: I intend to port my msi-x patch to work on top of
> it.

I though the point of MSI is that they are just a regular memory writes, and 
don't require any special bus support.

Paul