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Re: [Qemu-devel] PCI hotplug controller emulation
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Zhai, Edwin |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] PCI hotplug controller emulation |
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Wed, 21 May 2008 15:56:33 +0800 |
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Mutt/1.5.11 |
Tosatti,
I know you have a hotplug patch for KVM.
Do you have any plan to push it into QEMU upstream?
To do this, also need push the DSDT changes into Bochs.
Maybe we can co-ordinate to eliminate duplicated efforts.
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 01:17:41PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> On May 16, 2008, at 12:11 PM, Zhai, Edwin wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >I have cooked up a patch of ACPI PCI hotplug controller emulation,
> >which can be
> >extended to support hotplug of virtual PCI device, say ne2000 NIC.
>
> KVM also has such a feature. It might be a good idea to look at that
> implementation and see how things differ between the approaches and
> maybe get yours into KVM too.
>
> >
> >
> >Are you guys interested to integrate this device emulation?
> >
> >BTW, modification of ACPI DSDT table is required, but QEMU reuse the
> >binary from
> >Bochs. I don't know how to handle such issue in QEMU.
>
> Best idea here would be to send the patches to the bochs list.
> Alternatively there is a diff file against the bochs bios in the qemu
> svn too. Getting things upstream with bochs is preferred though.
>
>
> Alex
>
--
best rgds,
edwin