Anthony Liguori <anth...@codemonkey.ws> 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?
