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>
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Marc Zyngier
2016-05-28 11:27:11 +01:00
committed by Christoffer Dall
parent 0996353f8e
commit 50926d82fa
13 changed files with 134 additions and 5607 deletions

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@@ -46,13 +46,6 @@ config KVM_ARM_HOST
---help---
Provides host support for ARM processors.
config KVM_NEW_VGIC
bool "New VGIC implementation"
depends on KVM
default y
---help---
uses the new VGIC implementation
source drivers/vhost/Kconfig
endif # VIRTUALIZATION