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From: "Gerd Hoffmann" <kraxel@redhat.com>
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  Hi,

> > tianocore doesn't use interrupts (other than timer).
> 
> Yes I realized that by diving into the code. I can see microvm using
> the Xen timer while OvmfPkgX64 uses 8254 PIT.

Min, what happened to the patch series changing that?

(the plan is to always use the lapci except when compiling with csm
 enabled because pit/pic support is needed for backward compatibility
 reasons then).

take care,
  Gerd