RE: [Xen-devel] Dynamic-irq's in HVM domains

["James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> I can't help with the Windows side I'm afraid, perhaps there is a
> windows dev newsgroup or something that might be useful?

There might be. Curiously, windows communities are a bit different...
people like to keep their cards closer to their chest :)

> On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 20:02 +1100, James Harper wrote:
> > I made the assumption that 'Dynamic-irq' is the same as virq... if
> > not, what is a virq? It appears to be something that the hypervisor
is
> > aware of as there is a hypercall to bind to one.
> 
> They are IRQ sources from the hypervisor (as opposed to from a virtual
> or physical device or another domain). From xen/include/public/xen.h:

<snip>

> They are used by binding them to an event channel using
> EVTCHNOP_bind_virq, as you've probably noticed.

Ah. I had them backwards. I was assuming you could say 'when an event
channel fires, call this virq instead' and the virq would jump somewhere
into your idt.

I'll keep searching for another way...

Thanks

James

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