OpenFirmware devices and hotplug events

[Dave Hansen]

On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 10:35, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> Each OF node (or "device") that can be released to the hypervisor has an
> ibm,my-drc-index property.  The value of this property should correspond
> to an element in the ibm,drc-indexes property of the device's parent node.
...
> So when we want to add a cpu to the kernel's resource pool, we go down
> the list of drc indexes, making a query to the hv for each index that we
> don't already own to see if it's available.
>
> Does this clear things up?

Yes, it gives me a much clearer picture of what is going on.  Thanks.

I see what the data are for, but not why they are exposed to userspace.
Do applications make the decisions about which drc index to use, or is
that all done inside the kernel?  If  each ibm,my-drc-index were
suddenly removed today, what applications would break?

-- dave


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