Re: [patch 2/2] x86: arch specific support for remapping HPET MSIs

Ingo Molnar
2009-08-08T15:13:12Z

* Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> wrote:

> x86 arch support for remapping HPET MSI's by associating the HPET
> timer block with the interrupt-remapping HW unit and setting up
> appropriate irq_chip

interesting. This means we'd materially utilize the irq-remapper not
just on relatively obscure, virtualization related setups, but also
in the native x86 bootup mode, on all (hpet+remap capable) Linux
systems?

I like it - but i'll defer to Thomas to queue it up.

Ingo