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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	seabios@seabios.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>,
	Jordan Justen <jljusten@gmail.com>,
	Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: piix: PCI bridge ACPI hotplug support
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:18:13 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130611081813.GI31474@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51B6D924.6010802@redhat.com>

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:00:36AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> > Yes and not just because of windows guests.
> > ACPI spec is also very explicit that native hotplug is an optional
> > feature. Test suites such as WHQL are known to test spec compliance.
> 
> /me looks a bit surprised.
> 
> This pretty much implies that any shpc bridge needs a second interface
> to the hotplug functionality which can be driven via ACPI.  Or the
> firmware somehow handles this using smm (not sure this works for the IRQ
> though).
> 
> Do you know how this is handled by real hardware?
> 
> cheers,
>   Gerd

SHPC is not very widely deployed on a PC.

Since most hardware vendors do care about windows support,
the only way is a separate interface that is driven via ACPI.
You then need an ACPI specific register to switch to standard SHPC.
The SHPC spec even tells you as much.

-- 
MST

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-11  8:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-10 16:41 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: piix: PCI bridge ACPI hotplug support Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-06-10 18:58 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-06-10 19:17   ` Peter Maydell
2013-06-10 19:50     ` Anthony Liguori
2013-06-10 19:43   ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-06-10 19:57     ` Anthony Liguori
2013-06-10 20:43       ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-06-10 21:14         ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-06-10 21:45         ` Anthony Liguori
2013-06-10 23:05           ` Kevin O'Connor
2013-06-10 23:34             ` Anthony Liguori
2013-06-10 23:52               ` David Woodhouse
2013-06-11  0:11                 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-06-11 14:11                   ` David Woodhouse
2013-06-11  0:23               ` Kevin O'Connor
2013-06-11  0:51                 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-06-11  1:19                   ` Kevin O'Connor
2013-06-11  1:25                     ` Anthony Liguori
2013-06-11  1:49                       ` Kevin O'Connor
2013-06-11  6:49                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-06-11  0:28           ` Jordan Justen
2013-06-11  1:03             ` Anthony Liguori
2013-06-11  1:32               ` Jordan Justen
2013-06-11  7:35               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-06-13 23:05                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-14  0:59                   ` Anthony Liguori
2013-06-14  1:23                     ` [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] " Peter Stuge
2013-06-11 14:04               ` David Woodhouse
2013-06-13 23:02               ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-14  0:26                 ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-06-16 10:00                   ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-06-11  5:22   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-06-11  5:33 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2013-06-11  6:55   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-06-11  7:42     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2013-06-11  7:53       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-06-11  8:00         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2013-06-11  8:18           ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2013-06-11  8:27             ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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