Re: [Qemu-devel] PCI hotplug controller emulation

[Alexander Graf]

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