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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: + stupid-hack-to-make-mainline-build.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 20:17:12 +0100
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* Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> wrote:

> > Chris, would you like to work together on this?  I don't know what =

> > Xen's requirements are for the APIC interface.  Do you think we =

> > could come up with something that would fit both of our needs, and =

> > maybe also be usable for some of the subarch-specific code?
> =

> Sure, we just have a pretty small genapic_xen, and then enough =

> (hackery, this should be sorted out) to use that genapic and have an =

> effective override for __send_IPI_shortcut.

genapic is still too lowlevel: as Thomas mentioned what we want is a =

virtual interrupt controller used by /all/ hypervisors (and mapped to =

their respective hypervisor ABIs via the backend).

	Ingo