From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: i8259 defaults wrong? Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:54:15 +0300 Message-ID: <4A8928C7.1040807@redhat.com> References: <20090817022024.GE1025@MAIL.13thfloor.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:38474 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757461AbZHQJyR (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:54:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090817022024.GE1025@MAIL.13thfloor.at> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 08/17/2009 05:20 AM, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > Greetings! > > looking at the i8259 implementation found in qemu > as well as in the in-kernel kvm implementation, I > see that on pic_reset() special_fully_nested_mode > is set to zero, but the intel(r) 8259A manual says > on page 15: > > Fully Nested Mode > > This mode is entered after initialization unless > another mode is programmed. > > any comments are appreciated, a patch should be > trivial, but I'd gladly submit one if requested. > > Well, does the BIOS set fully nested mode on reset? If not, a kvm change is difficult, since the bios and kvm are updated independently. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function