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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 0/8] Support ACPI PSP on Hyper-V
On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 05:11:26PM +0100, Jeremi Piotrowski wrote:
> That same interface is exposed by physical hardware+firmware to the underlying
> Hyper-V.

Let me see if I understand it correctly: Hyper-V *baremetal* is using
the same ASPT spec to to talk to the *physical* PSP device?

Is that ASPT interface to talk to the PSP used by the L0 hypervisor?

Or does the L0 HV have a normal driver, similar to the Linux one,
without the functionality this ASPT spec provides?

> So it wasn't a matter of Microsoft architects coming up with a
> guest-host interface but rather exposing the virtual hardware in the same
> way as on a physical server.

So if you want to expose the same interface to the L1 guest, why isn't
Hyper-V emulating an ACPI device just like any other functionality? Why
does it need to reach into the interrupt handling internals?

I'd expect that the L0 HV would emulate a PSP device, the L1 would
simply load the Linux PSP device driver and everything should just work.

What's the point of that alternate access at all?

But I might still be missing something...

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