Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/7] APIC/IOAPIC cleanup

[Anthony Liguori]

On 08/23/2010 12:36 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Anthony Liguori<address@hidden>  writes:
>
>    
> > On 08/23/2010 10:10 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> >      
> > > You lost me.  A few messages upthread.
> > >
> > > What's the *practical* problem again?
> > >
> > >        
> > CPU hotplug adds a local APIC to Sysbus but Sysbus does not allow hot plug.
> >
> > I believe the right short term way to fix this is to take the local
> > APIC off of Sysbus.  The right long term fix is to not make the local
> > APIC a qdev device and instead fold it into CPUX86State.
> >      
> Treating the LAPIC as a part of the CPU makes sense to me.  I can't see,
> however, how all the OO-talk in this thread is related to that, and I
> can't connect the OO-talk to a practical problem.  Do I miss anything
> important?
>    

It's abstract talk about what the qdev object module includes, what it 
doesn't include, and what the interfaces are.

It started because I claimed that the lapic doesn't fit the qdev object 
module and Avi disagrees.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori