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    powerpc: introduce the ePAPR embedded hypervisor vmpic driver · 3a93261f
    Ashish Kalra authored
    The Freescale ePAPR reference hypervisor provides interrupt controller
    services via a hypercall interface, instead of emulating the MPIC
    controller.  This is called the VMPIC.
    
    The ePAPR "virtual interrupt controller" provides interrupt controller
    services for external interrupts.  External interrupts received by a
    partition can come from two sources:
    
      - Hardware interrupts - hardware interrupts come from external
        interrupt lines or on-chip I/O devices.
      - Virtual interrupts - virtual interrupts are generated by the hypervisor
        as part of some hypervisor service or hypervisor-created virtual device.
    
    Both types of interrupts are processed using the same programming model and
    same set of hypercalls.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAshish Kalra <ashish.kalra@freescale.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTimur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
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