KVM: arm/arm64: The GIC is dead, long live the GIC
authorMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Sat, 28 May 2016 10:27:11 +0000 (11:27 +0100)
committerChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Sun, 3 Jul 2016 21:09:37 +0000 (23:09 +0200)
commit50926d82fa271fa76d5717b546a66f7b5703ff05
tree4c977b2cb0bbee066c21f8a8102838787a16e64e
parent0996353f8ec6c6dba4a1f916bf6d9ace6f7d2b49
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>
13 files changed:
arch/arm/kvm/Kconfig
arch/arm/kvm/Makefile
arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig
arch/arm64/kvm/Makefile
include/kvm/arm_vgic.h
include/kvm/vgic/vgic.h [deleted file]
virt/kvm/arm/hyp/vgic-v2-sr.c
virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v2-emul.c [deleted file]
virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v2.c [deleted file]
virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v3-emul.c [deleted file]
virt/kvm/arm/vgic-v3.c [deleted file]
virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c [deleted file]
virt/kvm/arm/vgic.h [deleted file]