From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] KVM: Local-APIC interface cleanup Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:54:06 +0300 Message-ID: <462B22AE.4090108@qumranet.com> References: <20070420030905.12408.40403.stgit@ghaskins-t60p.haskins.net> <20070420030926.12408.27637.stgit@ghaskins-t60p.haskins.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org To: Gregory Haskins Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070420030926.12408.27637.stgit-5CR4LY5GPkvLDviKLk5550HKjMygAv58XqFh9Ls21Oc@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Gregory Haskins wrote: > Adds an abstraction to the LAPIC logic so that we can later substitute it > for an in-kernel model. > > This is overly abstracted. It's not like you can (on real hardware) wire your own lapic and plug it into the processor. It's well defined, and there are just three modes of operation: - emulated by userspace - emulated in-kernel, but disabled - emulated in-kernel The differentiation can be made by installing or not installing the mmio handler and the irqdevice stuff. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/