linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 1/4] irqchip: gic: Change irq type check when extension is present

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Date:	Wed, 27 Aug 2014 16:03:22 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
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Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 1/4] irqchip: gic: Change irq type check when
 extension is present

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
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