[RFC PATCH 12/45] KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-new: Add MMIO handling framework

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini at redhat.com
Thu Mar 31 05:25:02 PDT 2016



On 31/03/2016 11:09, Christoffer Dall wrote:
>> My comments to Vladimir's bug report notwithstanding, there's still a
>> choice here to:
>>
>> 1) Expand/modify the KVM IO bus framework to take an arbitrary number of devices
>>
>> 2) Build a KVM architectureal generic framework on top of the IO bus
>> framework to handle individual register regions.
>>
>> 3) Stick with what we had before, do not modify the KVM IO bus stuff,
>> and handle the individual register region business locally within the
>> arm/vgic code.

I prefer 3, or alternatively just add the framework in virt/kvm/arm so
that it can be migrated to virt/kvm if someone else needs it.

Paolo



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