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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: "Xu, Anthony" <anthony.xu@intel.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>,
	kvm-ia64@vger.kernel.org, "Zhang,
	Xiantao" <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [kvm-ia64-devel] IRQ assignment
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 19:50:59 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <483452F3.2050404@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51CFAB8CB6883745AE7B93B3E084EBE201BCC44B@pdsmsx412.ccr.corp.intel.com>

Xu, Anthony wrote:
>>
>> You can use this method for ia64, and we'll have a different function
>> for x86 (perhaps two functions, if we later increase the number of
>> pins to 48 (or even more); the DSDT will need to select the
>> appropriate routing table according to what's present on the
>> hardware). 
>>     
> It can work if X86 and ia64 implement different "->map" function.
>
> Use this kind of "fixed" algorithm may waste IOAPIC interrupt pin, due
> to not every pci device will use up 4 irq.
>
> Is it possible to let qemu dynamically build route table in DSDT?
>   

x86 and ia64 have different DSDTs, so I don't see the need for dynamic 
generation.  The x86 DSDT can return different routing tables depending 
on whether one or two ioapics are present (this can be detected at runtime).

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-21 16:51 UTC|newest]

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2008-05-21 16:16             ` [kvm-ia64-devel] IRQ assignment Avi Kivity
2008-05-21 16:47               ` Xu, Anthony
2008-05-21 16:50                 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-05-21 16:54                   ` Xu, Anthony
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2008-05-21 16:34               ` Avi Kivity

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