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KVM: arm/arm64: The GIC is dead, long live the GIC
authorMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Sat, 28 May 2016 10:27:11 +0000 (11:27 +0100)
committerChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Sun, 3 Jul 2016 21:09:37 +0000 (23:09 +0200)
commitb8e7ecd99d56207fb8277d2c6514cd3202211db8
tree4c977b2cb0bbee066c21f8a8102838787a16e64e
parent3d36b3c631b4c0845e59b68a7426aefc6e15dee3
KVM: arm/arm64: The GIC is dead, long live the GIC

I don't think any single piece of the KVM/ARM code ever generated
as much hatred as the GIC emulation.

It was written by someone who had zero experience in modeling
hardware (me), was riddled with design flaws, should have been
scrapped and rewritten from scratch long before having a remote
chance of reaching mainline, and yet we supported it for a good
three years. No need to mention the names of those who suffered,
the git log is singing their praises.

Thankfully, we now have a much more maintainable implementation,
and we can safely put the grumpy old GIC to rest.

Fellow hackers, please raise your glass in memory of the GIC:

The GIC is dead, long live the GIC!

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
13 files changed:
arch/arm/kvm/Kconfig
arch/arm/kvm/Makefile
arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig
arch/arm64/kvm/Makefile
include/kvm/arm_vgic.h
include/kvm/vgic/vgic.h [deleted file]
virt/kvm/arm/hyp/vgic-v2-sr.c
virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v2-emul.c [deleted file]
virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v2.c [deleted file]
virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v3-emul.c [deleted file]
virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v3.c [deleted file]
virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c [deleted file]
virt/kvm/arm/vgic.h [deleted file]