Gustavo Romero <gustavo.rom...@linaro.org> writes: > This is a resend of the series: > > https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20240222222218.2261956-1-gustavo.rom...@linaro.org/ > > rebased on the current master. The series was sent about 9 months ago and > remains relevant. Besides addressing the longstanding issue: > > https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1134 > > it has generated interest in the community at least twice since its last > version, from different contexts: > > https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-discuss/2024-05/msg00003.html > https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2024-09/msg00374.html > > This suggests the series is being used out-of-tree in various contexts, such > as experiments with heterogeneous architectures. > > But due to the fact it relies on sysbus, which is marked for future removal, > some maintainers objected to accepting the patchset, causing it to be held in > the ML.
Actually, I inquired about the use cases, and was told it's for OpenAMP. I challenged the use of ivshmem for that purpose in some detail[*], but got no reply. > However, given the ongoing community interest and since currently > there > isn't a better way on QEMU than using sysbus for the wiring needs of this > device (e.g. to wire the device to a CPU IRQ input line), I'd kindly like to > ask > maintainers to reconsider its acceptance. [*] https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/87zfth4psf....@pond.sub.org/ [...]
