Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/11 v3] Refactor PCI/SHPC/PCIE hotplug to use a more generic hotplug API

[Igor Mammedov]

On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:59:02 +0100
Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:

> Il 18/12/2013 16:48, Igor Mammedov ha scritto:
> >> Hotplugging a device is a special case of plugging a device.  If a bus
> >> or device only supports cold-plug, that can be done using
> >> "bc->allow_hotplug = false" or "dc->hotpluggable = false".
> > Do we need per instance ability to set "hotpluggable" property?
> > For example board might want to mark some CPUs as not hotpluggable.
> 
> I think such fine-grained control could be handled from dc->unplug.
> Let's not do anything more than we need, until we need it.
I had in mind a lightweight conversion of initial memory to DimmDevices
for i386 target and disabling its unplug until initial memory unplug
would be properly handled by board and SeaBIOS.

> 
> Paolo