[PATCH v3 20/32] arm64: KVM: Plug the arch timer

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Thu May 2 11:31:34 EDT 2013


On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:43:51PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 24/04/13 00:00, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 05:17:22PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> >> Add support for the in-kernel timer emulation. The include file
> >> is a complete duplicate of the 32bit one - something to fix
> >> at one point.
> > 
> > again, I'd really like to see this fixed before we merge the code...
> 
> Feel free to suggest a solution. None of the one I tried are nice.

Both arch timers and GIC are now drivers outside the arch/ directories.
To me it makes sense for emulated device drivers to also live outside
the arch/ directories, something like virt/kvm/drivers? As you said,
ioapic is already in virt/kvm.

-- 
Catalin



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