https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1515

For enabling VCPU hotplug with OVMF, OVMF needs to know the value of
"max_cpus". This quantity is not passed to the firmware currently --
SeaBIOS receives the (exclusive) maximum APICID, which is not useful to
OVMF --, so introduce a new fw_cfg file for this purpose.

Note: when OVMF is built with -D SMM_REQUIRE, this patch series is just
a small building block, towards the full VCPU hotplug feature. However,
when OVMF is built without -D SMM_REQUIRE, this series (together with
the counterpart patch set for OVMF) completes the VCPU hotplug feature:
it allows S3 resume to work with VCPUs hot-plugged previously (at OS
runtime, of course).

Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com>
Cc: Igor Mammedov <imamm...@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel.apfelb...@gmail.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>
Cc: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <r...@twiddle.net>

Thanks
Laszlo

Laszlo Ersek (4):
  fw_cfg: bump file slots to 40
  target/i386: remove useless enable_compat_apic_id_mode() prototype
  hw/i386: add facility to expose CPU topology over fw-cfg
  hw/i386/pc: expose CPU topology over fw-cfg

 hw/core/machine.c    |  2 ++
 hw/i386/fw_cfg.c     | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 hw/i386/fw_cfg.h     | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 hw/i386/pc.c         |  5 +++--
 hw/i386/pc_piix.c    |  2 ++
 hw/i386/pc_q35.c     |  2 ++
 hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c    |  2 +-
 include/hw/i386/pc.h |  3 +++
 target/i386/cpu.h    |  2 --
 9 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

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2.19.1.3.g30247aa5d201


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