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Subject: Re: [PATCH] irq: move some interrupt arch_* functions into struct
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On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 17:42 +0000, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> 
> Ian Xen in this sense is simply not x86.  irq_cfg is not acpi or
> ioapic or anything but x86 specific.  It has everything to do with
> having a per cpu vector table of 256 entries and architecturally
> receiving a vector number when an interrupt is fired.
> 
> It totally makes sense for Xen to do something different because
> architecturally it has a completely different irq subsystem.

OK, so that sounds like you would like the same patchset but without the
irq_cfg renaming? or potentially with renaming to x86_blah instead (I'll
rework to your preference).

Ian.