Re: CPU hotplug add seems broken

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On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:23:05PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 01/11/2010 11:24 AM, Ryota Ozaki wrote:
> >
> >>The problem is that there is no standard
> >>way to hotplug CPUs in a PC. Linux implements the way UNISYS happen to do
> >>it, but no other system do it like that. Windows implements it
> >>differently and in the way that conflicts with Linux, so you can't
> >>have working Linux implementation and pass Microsoft SVVP test at the
> >>same time for instance.
> >Could I ask you what's the difference between the two implementations?
> >Don't we have a possibility to have different implementations in qemu-kvm
> >(and SeaBIOS)?
> 
> IMO we should stick with the unisys-derived implementation, port it
> to SeaBIOS, and write a Windows driver for it.  It has the advantage
> of having support in Linux, and of being somewhat tested.
> 
That cool, but SVVP complains.

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