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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Set bit 1 in disabled processor's _STA
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 23:07:31 +0300
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Gleb Natapov wrote:
>
> Theoretically we can provide different values for different OSes, but
> this is just a guess work since there is no any documentation how CPU
> hot-plug should work on x86.
>   

ACPI in fact supports this, but I hope we don't have to do that.

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