Re: [Qemu-devel] PCI hotplug controller emulation

["Zhai, Edwin" <edwin.zhai@intel.com>]

Tosatti,

I know you have a hotplug patch for KVM.
Do you have any plan to push it into QEMU upstream?
To do this, also need push the DSDT changes into Bochs.

Maybe we can co-ordinate to eliminate duplicated efforts.

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 01:17:41PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> On May 16, 2008, at 12:11 PM, Zhai, Edwin wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >
> >I have cooked up a patch of ACPI PCI hotplug controller emulation,  
> >which can be
> >extended to support hotplug of virtual PCI device, say ne2000 NIC.
> 
> KVM also has such a feature. It might be a good idea to look at that  
> implementation and see how things differ between the approaches and  
> maybe get yours into KVM too.
> 
> >
> >
> >Are you guys interested to integrate this device emulation?
> >
> >BTW, modification of ACPI DSDT table is required, but QEMU reuse the  
> >binary from
> >Bochs. I don't know how to handle such issue in QEMU.
> 
> Best idea here would be to send the patches to the bochs list.  
> Alternatively there is a diff file against the bochs bios in the qemu  
> svn too. Getting things upstream with bochs is preferred though.
> 
> 
> Alex
> 

-- 
best rgds,
edwin