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

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Mon Jun 29 03:10:05 PDT 2015


Hi Andre,

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 06:19:53PM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
> I am tempted to remove shmem, since it's broken:
> a) there is no upstream driver, only some out-of-tree uio driver module
> in some Github repo

Right, but that's the same for qemu and we've already made the jump of
merging the driver, so I don't think that's a good argument for throwing
it out of the tree.

> b) the PCI device BARs do not match what QEMU implements and what the
> uio driver expects (IO BAR vs. MMIO BAR)

In what way? A quick look suggests that kvmtool is at least aligned with
said github repo.

> c) there is (at least one) bug in kvmtool (easily fixed, though)

Care to elaborate?

Will



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