Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] SPAPR-PCI Hotplug Support in Qemu

2013-10-11 Thread Anthony Liguori
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Mike Day wrote: > > [RFC] SPAPR-PCI Hotplug Support in Qemu > > Background: > ppc64 has a unique bus structure for PCI slots: each slot is connected > to its PHB by a pci switch. This is true in some IBM hardware as well as > paravirtual hardware (PAPR). > > SLOF f

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] SPAPR-PCI Hotplug Support in Qemu

2013-10-10 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2013-10-10 at 18:30 -0400, Mike Day wrote: > Adding Anthony's corrected address. > > > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Mike Day wrote: > [RFC] SPAPR-PCI Hotplug Support in Qemu > > > > Background: > > ppc64 has a unique bus structure for PCI slots: each slot is connected > > to its PHB

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] SPAPR-PCI Hotplug Support in Qemu

2013-10-10 Thread Mike Day
Adding Anthony's corrected address. On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Mike Day wrote: [RFC] SPAPR-PCI Hotplug Support in Qemu > > Background: > ppc64 has a unique bus structure for PCI slots: each slot is connected > to its PHB by a pci switch. This is true in some IBM hardware as well as > paravi

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] SPAPR-PCI Hotplug Support in Qemu

2013-10-10 Thread Mike Day
[RFC] SPAPR-PCI Hotplug Support in Qemu Background: ppc64 has a unique bus structure for PCI slots: each slot is connected to its PHB by a pci switch. This is true in some IBM hardware as well as paravirtual hardware (PAPR). SLOF firmware normally scans the hardware bus and creates the correct s