[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 00/16] HPET cleanups, fixes, enhancements

[Jan Kiszka]

Blue Swirl wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Jan Kiszka <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Second round, specifically adressing:
>>  - IRQMsg framework to refactor existing de-coalescing code
>>  - RTC IRQ output as GPIO pin (routed depening on HPET or -no-hpet)
>>  - ISA reservation for RTC IRQ
>>
>> If discussion around IRQMsg and de-coalescing happens to continue, I
>> would suggest to merge patches 1..7 as they are likely uncontroversial
>> and also fix bugs.
> 
> Otherwise everything looks fine to me, but 10 and 11 had minor
> problems. Nice work!

Thanks for the quick feedback!

> 
> I'd suppose one possible cleanup could be to use the message payload
> in place of apic_deliver_irq()?

Haven't looked into such things yet, the series is already long enough.
:) I could also imagine that we may avoid exporting the APIC MSI
functions for HPET use and instead provide a single MSI qemu_irq object,
pushing the vector information into the message payload.

Jan

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