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

Jesse Barnes
2009-08-10T16:58:39Z

On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 17:12:54 +0200
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

>
> * 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.

I guess this set should go through either the iommu or -tip tree.

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Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center