On Sun, 2012-10-07 at 00:54 +1000, David Gibson wrote: > I also don't see how it helps in this situation. The hotplug will > still be initiated by qemu, so we'd have to work out how qemu > communicates the info to RTAS, and how RTAS communicates it to the > kernel, doubling the work.
This is not about initiating the hotplug, this is about the resource management. Those are two separate problems. Cheers, Ben.