Messages in this thread | | | From | Keir Fraser <> | Subject | Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 14/35] subarch modify CPU capabilities | Date | Wed, 22 Mar 2006 09:33:09 +0000 |
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On 22 Mar 2006, at 08:35, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> That's pretty heinous. Suppose Xen decides to start supporting any of > these features. Now, you need to change all of the Xen modified > kernels to remove pieces of this.
Well, old kernels would still work and most of those features aren't all that useful in a virtualised environment anyway. But, point taken, adding a hypervisor trap for CPUID and making use of it would clean up that code.
-- Keir
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