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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Ryota Ozaki <ozaki.ryota@gmail.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>, dbareiro@gmx.net, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CPU hotplug add seems broken
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:23:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B4AFC09.3090909@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5e93dcec1001110124l38d35ef7y4e92aa8b74aa810a@mail.gmail.com>

On 01/11/2010 11:24 AM, Ryota Ozaki wrote:
>
>> The problem is that there is no standard
>> way to hotplug CPUs in a PC. Linux implements the way UNISYS happen to do
>> it, but no other system do it like that. Windows implements it
>> differently and in the way that conflicts with Linux, so you can't
>> have working Linux implementation and pass Microsoft SVVP test at the
>> same time for instance.
>>      
> Could I ask you what's the difference between the two implementations?
> Don't we have a possibility to have different implementations in qemu-kvm
> (and SeaBIOS)?
>    

IMO we should stick with the unisys-derived implementation, port it to 
SeaBIOS, and write a Windows driver for it.  It has the advantage of 
having support in Linux, and of being somewhat tested.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-11 10:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-08 10:35 CPU hotplug add seems broken Ryota Ozaki
2010-01-09 19:30 ` Daniel Bareiro
2010-01-10  6:39   ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-10  8:33     ` Ryota Ozaki
2010-01-10  8:43       ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-11  9:24         ` Ryota Ozaki
2010-01-11  9:32           ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-11 10:21             ` Ryota Ozaki
2010-01-11 10:23           ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-01-11 10:24             ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-11 10:25               ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-11 10:42                 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-11 10:50                   ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-11 10:53                     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-11 10:58                       ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-11 11:03                         ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-11 11:06                           ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-11 12:18                             ` Gleb Natapov
2010-01-11 13:57                     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-01-11 14:32                       ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-11 10:30             ` Ryota Ozaki

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