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Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 1/4] irqchip: gic: Change irq type check when
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On Wed, 27 Aug 2014, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> I very much like that kind of approach. Stacking domains seems to solve
> a number of issues at once:
> 
> - NVIDIA's gic extension
> - TI's crossbar
> - ARM's GICv2m
> - Mediatek's glorified line inverter
> - ... and probably the next madness that's going to land tomorrow

Its probably already there you just don't know about it yet :)
 
> I haven't completly groked the way we're going to allocate domains and
> irq_data structures, but this is definitely something worth

All we have for now is a rough idea and some pseudo code in my lengthy
reply to Jiang, but it shouldn't be hard to implement something
useful.

Thanks,

	tglx