From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751737AbZHHPNM (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Aug 2009 11:13:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751664AbZHHPNL (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Aug 2009 11:13:11 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:44756 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751595AbZHHPNL (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Aug 2009 11:13:11 -0400 Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 17:12:54 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Suresh Siddha Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Venkatesh Pallipadi , David Woodhouse , Jesse Barnes , Jay Fenlason Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] x86: arch specific support for remapping HPET MSIs Message-ID: <20090808151254.GC28892@elte.hu> References: <20090804190729.477649000@intel.com> <20090804190729.630510000@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090804190729.630510000@intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.5 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Suresh Siddha wrote: > x86 arch support for remapping HPET MSI's by associating the HPET > timer block with the interrupt-remapping HW unit and setting up > appropriate irq_chip interesting. This means we'd materially utilize the irq-remapper not just on relatively obscure, virtualization related setups, but also in the native x86 bootup mode, on all (hpet+remap capable) Linux systems? I like it - but i'll defer to Thomas to queue it up. Ingo