From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 30 of 38] xen: implement io_apic_ops
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:39:06 -0800
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Yinghai Lu wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
>   
>> it certainly looks thin enough to me although i'm really not sure we 
>> want to virtualize at the IO-APIC level. Peter, what's your 
>> opinion/preference?
>>
>>     
>
> relative fixed mapping, always make it simple and tracked easily.
> like irq nr == gsi nr...

That was a bit terse for me to understand your point.  The code already 
has irq==gsi.  Are you proposing that it stay that way, or something else?

    J