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From: Bernhard Kohl <bernhard.kohl@gmx.net>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: IOAPIC: Do not check polarity
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:30:34 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20090316T222246-94@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 49BCDAAD.7000706@redhat.com

Avi Kivity <avi <at> redhat.com> writes:
> 
> While qemu uses active-high interrupts throughout, kvm is meant to be 
> useful with other userspace (or for emulating other chipsets) and thus 
> needs correct polarity emulation.
> 
> If the guest programs polarity to active-low, this indicates either a 
> guest bug or a bios bug.  Is it possible the bios does not communicate 
> the fact that pci interrupts are active high correctly?
> 

The guest gets the polarity from the BIOS MP table, which I added. I defined
the polarity and trigger mode "low level". I will change that to "high level".
Need to wait for testing until next week.



      reply	other threads:[~2009-03-16 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-13 10:53 [PATCH] KVM: IOAPIC: Do not check polarity Bernhard Kohl
2009-03-15 10:38 ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-16 22:30   ` Bernhard Kohl [this message]

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