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Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> writes: > On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 21:38 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Rusty Russell wrote: >> > >> > Dammit, Eric, you spend a lot of time using words like "insane" where >> > you mean we didn't do everything all at once. >> > >> > It's *not* clear that using %esi is sane, but nothing in the current >> > code prevents that. >> >> Why not? > > (I assume you mean why isn't it clear?) > > Because VMI uses the presence of a ROM to indicate it's not native. KVM > uses a magic MSR IIRC. Reasonable, if you don't mid a little hardware emulation. > I think it makes sense for lguest to change over, tho. Patches welcome > 8) Sure. Peter do we want to use the bootloader byte and assign lguest it's own bootloader type or do we want to add another field specific to paravirtualized environments? Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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