Re: [Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH] Implement IOSAPIC handler for IPF si

On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 16:26 +0800, Xu, Anthony wrote:
> Create viosapic handling for IPF.
> There are three reasons to do this.
> 1. IOSAPIC is different with IOAPIC 
>    such as:
>        1. IOAPIC implement broadcast, but IOSAPIC doesn't
>        2. IOSAPIC doesn't implement dest_mode and remote irr bits.
>        3. IOSAPIC implement EOI but IOAPIC doesn't
>        etc.
> 2. In IA32 side there are I8259 and LAPIC who are
>     related to IOAPIC, but In IPF there is no I8259 and has LSAPIC.
> 3. after creating this file, all header files under asm-ia64/hvm, which
>    are linked from IA32 side, are not needed.

Hi Anthony,

   xen-unstable.hg also removed HVMOP_set_irq_level, can we safely
remove references to it from the xen and sparse trees with this patch?
Thanks,

        Alex

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Alex Williamson                             HP Open Source & Linux Org.


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