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On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 12:58:54PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote:
> with all the hipe on virtualization, I'm wandering if the day
> will come and we will have virtual irqs ...

MSI could very well be described as a "virtual irq".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_Signaled_Interrupts

Craig