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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: msi irq allocation api
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 20:32:41 +0300
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Blue Swirl wrote:
> Sparc64 also uses packets ("mondos", not implemented yet) for
> interrupt vector data, there the packet size is 8 * 64 bits. I think
> we should aim for a more generic API that covers this case also.
>
>   

Is the packet structure visible to software?

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