[PATCH] kvmtool: don't use PCI config space IRQ line field

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Fri Feb 6 10:55:27 PST 2015


On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 03:39:50PM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote:
> In PCI config space there is an interrupt line field (offset 0x3f),
> which is used to initially communicate the IRQ line number from
> firmware to the OS. _Hardware_ should never use this information,
> as the OS is free to write any information in there.

Is this true even with probe-only? I appreciate that this isn't a BAR,
but it still feels odd for Linux to write this in that case.

Will



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