Re: + stupid-hack-to-make-mainline-build.patch added to -mm tree

Ingo Molnar
2007-03-08T19:18:26Z

* Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> wrote:

> > Chris, would you like to work together on this? I don't know what
> > Xen's requirements are for the APIC interface. Do you think we
> > could come up with something that would fit both of our needs, and
> > maybe also be usable for some of the subarch-specific code?
>
> Sure, we just have a pretty small genapic_xen, and then enough
> (hackery, this should be sorted out) to use that genapic and have an
> effective override for __send_IPI_shortcut.

genapic is still too lowlevel: as Thomas mentioned what we want is a
virtual interrupt controller used by /all/ hypervisors (and mapped to
their respective hypervisor ABIs via the backend).

Ingo