Hi Pavel,
On 06/25/2015 10:46 AM, Pavel Fedin wrote:
>  Hi!
> 
>> But personally I would prefer we
>> check irqchip routing entries have flat mapping, ie gsi = irqchip.pin
>> since in any case we don't want/expect the userspace to play with that.
> 
>  Why? On x86 userspace perfectly can play with it. We can imagine some very 
> new qemu version in
> future which has all arch-specific kludges like "direct mapping" removed and 
> relying fully on
> routing which it sets up from scratch, in the same way as x86 qemu does this. 
> Or we can imagine some
> new, legacy-free hypervisor implementation. The gsi == irqchip.pin limitation 
> is just what we have
> now by default, for backwards compatibility. But by design we were never 
> obliged to stick to this.
>  Well, it's just MHO...
OK I will get rid of the test. I think the most important is we clearly
state routing doesn't apply to KVM_IRQ_LINE.

Thanks

Eric


> 
> Kind regards,
> Pavel Fedin
> Expert Engineer
> Samsung Electronics Research center Russia
> 
> 

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