From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MhS1Y-0000VV-Ka for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:47:36 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MhS1U-0000OF-1Q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:47:36 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53348 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MhS1T-0000OC-RQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:47:31 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:54136) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MhS1T-0007TK-CS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:47:31 -0400 Message-ID: <4A9969C9.9020806@redhat.com> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:47:53 +0300 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Route IOAPIC interrupts via ISA bus References: <1249836296-13288-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> <1249836296-13288-3-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> <4A955CB4.4080205@redhat.com> <4A955D6A.9060804@redhat.com> <4A973EF1.10707@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <4A973EF1.10707@us.ibm.com> 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: Beth Kon Cc: Gerd Hoffmann , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 08/28/2009 05:20 AM, Beth Kon wrote: > I was thinking of the HPET advertising one or more of these new ioapic > interrupts so that it could support non-legacy operation. It can't at > the moment because there are no interrupt lines available. I haven't > looked into the details of what would remain to be done to make this > happen, but does it sound reasonable? Sounds like at a minimum acpi > needs some work. What does non-legacy HPET buy us? -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.