Re: [SeaBIOS] About cpu_set, CPU hotplug and related subjects

2010-05-10 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
On 28.04.2010 12:45, Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:41:51PM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote: > >> The CPU declarations are particularly tricky as they get pretty big and >> complex and need to live in the DSDT, whereas a lot of other things we >> can shift off to separate SSDT tables

Re: [SeaBIOS] About cpu_set, CPU hotplug and related subjects

2010-04-28 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:41:51PM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote: > On 04/28/10 12:30, Gleb Natapov wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:31:00AM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote: > >> On 04/22/10 03:12, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > >> Generating the more complex tables dynamically would be preferred, but > >> it

Re: [SeaBIOS] About cpu_set, CPU hotplug and related subjects

2010-04-28 Thread Jes Sorensen
On 04/28/10 12:30, Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:31:00AM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote: >> On 04/22/10 03:12, Kevin O'Connor wrote: >> Generating the more complex tables dynamically would be preferred, but >> it requires like half an AML compiler in Seabios, so it kinda stalled >> th

Re: [SeaBIOS] About cpu_set, CPU hotplug and related subjects

2010-04-28 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:31:00AM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote: > On 04/22/10 03:12, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > > As I understand it, the hotplug support was only in the kvm copy of > > bochs bios. It also limited the number of cpus one could use (I think > > 16). > > > > The current smp support in Se

Re: [SeaBIOS] About cpu_set, CPU hotplug and related subjects

2010-04-28 Thread Jes Sorensen
On 04/22/10 03:12, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > As I understand it, the hotplug support was only in the kvm copy of > bochs bios. It also limited the number of cpus one could use (I think > 16). > > The current smp support in SeaBIOS doesn't limit the number of cpus. > > So, there has been reluctance

Re: About cpu_set, CPU hotplug and related subjects

2010-04-21 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 04:34:54PM -0300, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote: > After doing some reading it seems to me that the reason why that is not > happening is because SeaBIOS still doesn't have code to support CPU hot > plugging as BochsBIOS did. As I understand it, the hotplug support was onl

About cpu_set, CPU hotplug and related subjects

2010-04-19 Thread Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
Hi folks, I've implemented a functional test for the cpu_set feature some time ago. I was going through the patch queue and realized the patch needed some respin, so I did it. I decided to try and see what is the state of the feature, considering last time I tried it was not working (segfaulting)