Re: RFC/patch 0/3 portability: please review

[Carsten Otte <cotte-tA70FqPdS9bQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 22:53 +0100, Carsten Otte wrote:
>> Zhang, Xiantao wrote:
>>> Basically, It doesn't impact our side. For patch 2/3, we had better find
>>> an approach to handle mmio-realted functions, becasue they may exist in
>>> most archs. 
>>> For IA64, if this move happens, we have to duplicate them in IA64 side.
>> Thanks for your feedback. This matches Hollis' view, I'll try to 
>> rework that patch. We're really the only platform without mmio, that's 
>> a s390 special case. I'll leave it in common and find a way around for 
>> s390.
> 
> Well, those functions right now are hacks that assume the only in-kernel
> device is an APIC. That won't even build for anybody who doesn't have
> vcpu->apic... that's why I say go ahead and move them, and we can worry
> about it later.
Right. Xiantao, does ia64 have an apic? Or do you intend to use the 
code different from x86?

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