* Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> - *pic in kernel: most effort, easiest irq synchronization.  Interface 
> is pic/ioapic pin level, plus a topology description that userspace 
> uses to tell the hardware how the pins are connected (logically 
> required, but practically not).

yeah, that variant is the right way to do it. Note that this also paves 
the way for possible future PIC hardware virtualization features like 
the CPU directly injecting an external IRQ vector to the guest [without 
trapping out to the hypervisor]. Interrupt handling fundamentally 
belongs into the kernel, be that the host or the guest. (User-space 
abstractions in the PIC space make little sense and i know of none.)

        Ingo

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