powerpc: introduce the ePAPR embedded hypervisor vmpic driver

The Freescale ePAPR reference hypervisor provides interrupt controller
services via a hypercall interface, instead of emulating the MPIC
controller.  This is called the VMPIC.

The ePAPR "virtual interrupt controller" provides interrupt controller
services for external interrupts.  External interrupts received by a
partition can come from two sources:

  - Hardware interrupts - hardware interrupts come from external
    interrupt lines or on-chip I/O devices.
  - Virtual interrupts - virtual interrupts are generated by the hypervisor
    as part of some hypervisor service or hypervisor-created virtual device.

Both types of interrupts are processed using the same programming model and
same set of hypercalls.

Signed-off-by: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
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Ashish Kalra
2011-05-19 08:54:28 -05:00
committed by Kumar Gala
parent bd497fc978
commit 3a93261f70
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@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ ccflags-$(CONFIG_PPC64) := -mno-minimal-toc
mpic-msi-obj-$(CONFIG_PCI_MSI) += mpic_msi.o mpic_u3msi.o mpic_pasemi_msi.o
obj-$(CONFIG_MPIC) += mpic.o $(mpic-msi-obj-y)
obj-$(CONFIG_PPC_EPAPR_HV_PIC) += ehv_pic.o
fsl-msi-obj-$(CONFIG_PCI_MSI) += fsl_msi.o
obj-$(CONFIG_PPC_MSI_BITMAP) += msi_bitmap.o