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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:18:11 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC 0/4] dynamically allocate arch specific system vectors
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Dean Nelson wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:59:05AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> I need to look at these patches some more (apologies I got busy).
> 
> Thanks for taking a look.
> 
> I've got a not-quite-complete new version of the patchset that addresses
> most of the issues raised by Ingo. At it's heart is the following:
> 

What would seem most intuitive to me would have been, in this case, to
add this as a new MSI IRQ chip type.  We already have several of those
(PCI vs HT), and this *should* give you all the hooks you need.

	-hpa