[SeaBIOS] Alt SeaBIOS SSDT cpu hotplug

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 12:41:18AM +0800, Liu, Jinsong wrote:
> Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 09:19:13PM +0800, Liu, Jinsong wrote:
> >> Avi Kivity wrote:
> >>> Very nice.  I thought about doing this but abandoned it as
> >>> unmaintainable.  Using external functions and the ID variable,
> >>> however, reduces the mess to tolerable proportions, and gains us a
> >>> lot of flexibility.  We can now have any combinations of sockets and
> >>> installed cpus.
> >> 
> >> Agree, only 1 concern
> >> will it bring debugable/ scalable issue by hardcode aml code?
> > 
> > I've updated the patch (see below).  This version documents how one
> > can build a new version of the Processor() ssdt snippet.
> > 
> > I've tested this under linux - there were a few bugs in the previous
> > patch.  I also had to replace the dynamically created CPUS array with
> > a dynamically created NTFY method - which is a bit more complicated.
> 
> Yeah, thanks Kevin.
> After you done patch and draft test, our QA may do nightly test.

Hi Jinsong,

Have you had any feedback from tests?

Thanks,
-Kevin