On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:31:00AM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote: > On 04/22/10 03:12, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > > As I understand it, the hotplug support was only in the kvm copy of > > bochs bios. It also limited the number of cpus one could use (I think > > 16). > > > > The current smp support in SeaBIOS doesn't limit the number of cpus. > > > > So, there has been reluctance to just port the old kvm bios code > > forward. > > I believe the number was limited to 15, due to limits in a certain > proprietary operating system. > > The issue with the AML code in BOCHS vs the code in Seabios is a bit > tricky. The tables in BOCHS are a fair bit more complicated with the > hotplug code and therefore statically generated, whereas Seabios > generates them dynamically at boot time. > > Generating the more complex tables dynamically would be preferred, but > it requires like half an AML compiler in Seabios, so it kinda stalled > there.... > We can try to be smart and generate most of the code statically and only minimum that absolutely required dynamically. Haven't looked at how simple dynamic part can be made. -- Gleb. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
