> > > Now an OS can have a standard driver and use it > > > to activate hotplug functionality. This is OS hotplug (OSHP). > > > > So presumably this will work on targets that don't have ACPI? > > Assuming a competent guest OS of course. Have you tested this? > > This being the qemu side of things? I run Linux > and verified that it calls OSHP and afterwards, > runs the native driver and handles hotplug/unplug > without invoking ACPI at all. I mean using your shiny new hotplug PCI-PCI bridge on arm/ppc/mips targets (i.e anything other than x86 PC). From your description it sounds like it *should* work. > It seems that at least the SHPC driver in linux > doesn't work if you don't have an acpi table > with the OSHP method - not many people run with acpi=off > nowdays, so it's probably just a bug. > I'll check how hard it is to fix this. Targets other than x86 don't have ACPI to start with. Paul -- 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
