Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/3] ACPI based I/O APIC hot-plug

Paul Ionescu
2005-04-26T14:03:26Z

Hi Kenji,

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:39:26 +0900, Kenji Kaneshige wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Here is a set of patches to support ACPI based I/O APIC hotplug. This code
> consists of the following three patches.
>
> - Add the new interfaces for I/O APIC hot-add/hot-remove. The
> implementation of these interfaces depends on each architecture.
>
> - IA64 implementation of above-mentioned interfeces for I/O APIC
> hot-add/hot-remove.

Any plans for i386 implementation ?

>
> - Add I/O APIC hot-add support to ACPIPHP dirver. PCI root bridge
> hot-add will be fully functional with this patch. This will be also
> needed to support hot-add of p2p bridge hierarchy that contains I/O
> APICs. This code supports only hot-add for now.
>
> These patches support I/O APIC hot-plug on ia64 only for now. These are
> against 2.6.12-rc2-mm3.
>
> Thanks,
> Kenji Kaneshige