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To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: KVM devel mailing list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>, seabios@seabios.org, qemu-devel qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, dwmw2@infradead.org

Il 02/06/2013 17:05, Gleb Natapov ha scritto:
>>> Anthony requested that patches be made that generate the ACPI tables
>>> in QEMU for the upcoming hotplug work, so that they could be evaluated
>>> to see if they truly do need to live in QEMU or if the code could live
>>> in the firmware.  There were no objections.
>>
>> I volunteered to implement this.
>
> Why hotplug should generate ACPI code? It does not do so on real HW.

Hotplug can do a LoadTable and merge it into the existing ones.  But
then you do not need QEMU-time generation of tables to do the same thing
for cold-plug.

Paolo