Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/25] q35 series take #1

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 01:33:04PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 15/09/2012 02:24, Isaku Yamahata ha scritto:
> >> > ok, yes pcie hotplug seems to work :) I guess I got confused b/c I
> >> > thought devices would show up on the host bus. So the host bus in q35
> >> > simply doesn't support hotplug?
> > No, it doesn't.
> 
> I think it makes sense then to keep ACPI hotplug on the host bus, for
> backwards compatibility with PIIX4 guests, especially if the code is
> written.
> 
> Paolo

I agree.  I think ACPI hotplug support is a spec requirement anyway: if
you look at ACPI spec you will see that native hotplug support for guest
is optional.

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