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Re: In kernel PIC support: kernel patch: msg#00685

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Subject: Re: In kernel PIC support: kernel patch

Dong, Eddie wrote:
>> Need to add a way to detect if this functionality is available, via
>> KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION.
>>
>
> Sure. Question:
> Should we check the extension API basis or feature sets list?
> I.e. Each API (KVM_CREATE_PIC, KVM_SET_ISA_IRQ_LEVEL) or feature sets:
> KVM_KERNEL_IRQCHIP.
>
>

I guess pre-feature. We want to have fine granularity so we can change
small things, but per-API is too fine.

So in this case I'd suggest KVM_CAP_PIC, KVM_CAP_APIC, etc. (note the
KVM_CAP_* namespace).


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