Re: kexec for 2.5.44 (Who do I send this to?)

From: Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com)
Date: Wed Oct 30 2002 - 10:53:33 EST


Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> writes:

> Hi!
>
> > [snip] discussion on how to model IOAPIC and pic and cpus using
> > the device model.
> >
> > I now need to go code this thing don't I? Or did I get lucky
> > and get you interested Pavel?
>
> I'm not sure if putting APICS above PCI will look right to
> Patrick... You'd better ask him. (Sorry, I was offline for > week.)

Ok I will. I primarily meant to put an APIC bus above pci. And maybe
filter the APICS down. The real challenge is that the APIC connection is
in parallel with the PCI connection. It would take a DAG to truly model
the connections between hardware, and I have been told that people don't want that...

Eric
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