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Re: [PULL v2 29/53] hw/i386: Remove now redundant TYPE_ACPI_GED_X86


From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Subject: Re: [PULL v2 29/53] hw/i386: Remove now redundant TYPE_ACPI_GED_X86
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 14:15:46 -0400

On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 10:33:08AM +0000, Bernhard Beschow wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 18. Oktober 2023 17:38:33 UTC schrieb Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@opnsrc.net>:
> >Hello,
> 
> Hi Salil,
> 
> >Can we assume that every machine type will have all the features which a GED 
> >Device can multiplex present together? like will Memory and CPU Hotplug 
> >makes sense for all the type of machines?
> 
> I can't really answer these questions -- I'm by no means an ACPI expert. My 
> idea about removing TYPE_ACPI_GED_X86 really was not more than the commit 
> message says: To remove unneeded code.
> 
> That said, I wonder myself if the GED device could be uniformly implemented 
> across architectures and if -- in theory -- it could be used in the pc-i440fx 
> machine instead of the Frankenstein hotplug implementation in PIIX4.
> 
> Best regards,
> Bernhard



I am redoing the pull anyway. I dropped this until this discussion
concludes then.




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