RE: [Xen-devel] Genapic

["Puthiyaparambil, Aravindh" <aravindh.puthiyaparambil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Genapic is done differently for i386 and x86_64 in the LK. In i386 it is
machine specific and in x86_64 it is APIC model specific. Do you want
Xen to mimic that? Further more both i386 and x86_64 have separate
apic.c, io_apic.c (just to name a couple) files. Xen shares them between
the two. Will that cause any problems? 

I am wondering if it is possible to have a unified genapic for Xen. Or
is it way too complicated?

Aravindh

-----Original Message-----
From: Keir Fraser [mailto:Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 11:25 AM
To: Puthiyaparambil, Aravindh
Cc: Davis, Jason; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Vessey, Bruce A;
Subrahmanian, Raj
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Genapic


On 18 May 2005, at 14:59, Puthiyaparambil, Aravindh wrote:

> But for now I shall bring in the mach-es7000 as a compile time option.

I didn't realise that most of the genapic targets are trivially 
run-time selectable. That being the case, I'm happy for you to make 
es7000 run-time selected right now.

  -- Keir


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