Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] x86: ioapic: conditionally upgrade IOAPIC version

2016-08-01 Thread Peter Xu
On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 12:38:58PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > On 26/07/2016 05:28, Peter Xu wrote: > > IOMMU IR and IOAPIC legacy devices (e.g., e1000) cannot work well > > together with some old Linux kernels (upstream before v4.0, or any > > released RHEL kernels). This patch fixes it. >

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] x86: ioapic: conditionally upgrade IOAPIC version

2016-08-01 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 26/07/2016 05:28, Peter Xu wrote: > IOMMU IR and IOAPIC legacy devices (e.g., e1000) cannot work well > together with some old Linux kernels (upstream before v4.0, or any > released RHEL kernels). This patch fixes it. > > The problem is that: some old linux kernels (with IR enabled) only > su

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] x86: ioapic: conditionally upgrade IOAPIC version

2016-07-25 Thread Peter Xu
IOMMU IR and IOAPIC legacy devices (e.g., e1000) cannot work well together with some old Linux kernels (upstream before v4.0, or any released RHEL kernels). This patch fixes it. The problem is that: some old linux kernels (with IR enabled) only support IOAPIC chips with version 0x20. New kernels a