Re: [Xen-devel] [DRAFT C] PVH CPU hotplug design document

[Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 09:30:30AM -0700, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 17.01.17 at 18:14, <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This can be solved by using a different ACPI name in order to describe 
> > vCPUs in
> > the ACPI namespace. Most hardware vendors tend to use CPU or PR prefixes for
> > the processor objects, so using a 'VP' (ie: Virtual Processor) prefix should
> > prevent clashes.
> 
> I continue to think that this is insufficient, without seeing a nice
> clean way to solve the issue properly.

But in this document the namespace path for processor objects will be
_SB.XEN0.VPXX, which should prevent any namespace clashes. Maybe I should have
updated the wording here, every Xen-related ACPI bit will be inside the
_SB.XEN0 namespace.

Roger.

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