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From: Jork Loeser <jloeser@linux.microsoft.com>
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On Thu, 2 Apr 2026, Anirudh Rayabharam wrote:

> Maybe it's time to extract all the synic management stuff to a separate
> file to act like synic "driver" which facilitates synic access to
> mutiple users i.e. mshv & vmbus.

Yes, such a refactor maybe warranted. This series is about getting 
kexec to work on L1VH, and so such refactor would be ill-placed here.

Best,
Jork