Re: [PATCH 2] HVM vcpu add/remove: setup dsdt and madt infrastructure for vcpu add/remove

[Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>]

On 10/12/2009 12:08, "Liu, Jinsong" <jinsong.liu@intel.com> wrote:

>> What's PROC_BASE, and what's APIC_MADT_PTR? No comments attached to
>> them: they look like random magic numbers.
> 
> KVM has vcpu add/remove code, these 2 items learn from KVM qemu/vbios/dsdt
> code.
> Since they belong to qemu & vbios part, I think we'd better keep same with
> KVM.
> I will add comments for them at updated patch.

Oh, I categorically do not care about keeping these magic numbers the same
as KVM/qemu. If there are some ioports or iomem emulated at fixed address by
qemu then that's one thing, but keeping their vbios random numbers when we
*do not use* the same vbios makes no sense.

I'd rather keep our MADT layout, add a few lines of code to hvmloader to
describe some MADT position/layout parameters to the DSDT via the bios_info
structure, and go from there. Smaller, clearer patch, as far as I can see.

 -- Keir