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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: in-kernel interrupt controller steering
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 16:44:41 +1100
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Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
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On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 06:59:16PM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
> On 03/04/2013 04:20:47 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> >1) We need to set the generic interrupt type of the system before
> >we create vcpus.
> >
> >This is a new ioctl that sets the overall system interrupt
> >controller type to a specific model. This used so that when we
> >create vcpus, we can create the appended "local interrupt
> >controller" state without the actual interrupt controller device
> >available yet. It is also used later to switch between interrupt
> >controller implementations.
> >
> >This interrupt type is write once and frozen after the first vcpu
> >got created.
> 
> Who is going to write up this patch?

I'll have a stab at it.

Paul.