Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 08/23/2010 10:10 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> You lost me. A few messages upthread. >> >> What's the *practical* problem again? >> > > CPU hotplug adds a local APIC to Sysbus but Sysbus does not allow hot plug. > > I believe the right short term way to fix this is to take the local APIC > off of Sysbus. The right long term fix is to not make the local APIC a > qdev device and instead fold it into CPUX86State.
This pushes the issue to the CPU. I'm convinced CPUs should become qdevs as well, so we need a hotplug-capable bus anyway. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux
