From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M6pfR-0007cw-Dv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 20 May 2009 13:33:25 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M6pfM-0007aP-Iq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 20 May 2009 13:33:25 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54253 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M6pfM-0007aJ-A2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 20 May 2009 13:33:20 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:47288) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M6pfL-0004FH-PI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 20 May 2009 13:33:20 -0400 Message-ID: <4A143EB9.6080202@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 20:32:41 +0300 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: msi irq allocation api References: <20090520162130.GA22109@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Blue Swirl Cc: Carsten Otte , kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Rusty Russell , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Christian Borntraeger Blue Swirl wrote: > Sparc64 also uses packets ("mondos", not implemented yet) for > interrupt vector data, there the packet size is 8 * 64 bits. I think > we should aim for a more generic API that covers this case also. > > Is the packet structure visible to software? -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.