Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:29:46 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: i686 quirk for AMD Geode |
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On 11/10/2009 02:41 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: > > In theory yes. There would need to be a bit of work to disassociate it > from kvm, but nothing too difficult. > > Note that the kvm x86 emulator is more general than need be (emulates > real mode code and cpl 0 instructions) and less general than needed > (many instructions are not emulated, for example nopl). >
Yes, but I suspect that adding new instructions probably is straightforward. I would still prefer to have a single interpreter in the kernel as opposed to two different ones which are going to have different bugs.
-hpa
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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