On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 10:32 -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:39:36PM +0200, Conrad Wood wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I'm currently looking into hotplugging CPUs. > > This exclusively with linux-guests and linux-host. > > I have found some (conflicting) information about this on the net. > > > > As far as I read: > > * seabios doesn't support SMP (but why does the linux-guest show > > multiple cpus?) > > * there is no uniform way of informing the linux kernel that a cpu has > > added (Found references to a unisys way of doing it though, which seems > > to be still implemented) > > * the kernel needs the acpi tables to determine how many cpus it has, > > thus the support in the bios would involve an aml-compiler to > > hot-compile new acpi tables. > > SeaBIOS version 0.6.1 has ACPI support for cpu-hotplug. It's been > tested on Linux and Windows. Search the mail archive for "cpu > hotplug" for the details. > > -Kevin > Now... that would save some time ;) Thank you! Conrad -- 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
