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

Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Thu Mar 31 07:31:54 PDT 2016


On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 02:25:02PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
Sounds like a plan.  Thanks Paolo.

-Christoffer



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