[SeaBIOS] Alt SeaBIOS SSDT cpu hotplug
Liu, Jinsong
jinsong.liu at intel.com
Sun Jul 25 06:49:12 CEST 2010
Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 12:41:18AM +0800, Liu, Jinsong wrote:
>> Kevin O'Connor wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 09:19:13PM +0800, Liu, Jinsong wrote:
>>>> Avi Kivity wrote:
>>>>> Very nice. I thought about doing this but abandoned it as
>>>>> unmaintainable. Using external functions and the ID variable,
>>>>> however, reduces the mess to tolerable proportions, and gains us a
>>>>> lot of flexibility. We can now have any combinations of sockets
>>>>> and installed cpus.
>>>>
>>>> Agree, only 1 concern
>>>> will it bring debugable/ scalable issue by hardcode aml code?
>>>
>>> I've updated the patch (see below). This version documents how one
>>> can build a new version of the Processor() ssdt snippet.
>>>
>>> I've tested this under linux - there were a few bugs in the previous
>>> patch. I also had to replace the dynamically created CPUS array
>>> with a dynamically created NTFY method - which is a bit more
>>> complicated.
>>
>> Yeah, thanks Kevin.
>> After you done patch and draft test, our QA may do nightly test.
>
> Hi Jinsong,
>
> Have you had any feedback from tests?
>
> Thanks,
> -Kevin
Oh, I misunderstand.
I originally thought our QA will test after your patch send to upstream, so we wait for it :)
I will talk with our QA this week to arrange test for it.
Thanks,
Jinsong
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