Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:55:35 +0000 | From | "Jan Beulich" <> | Subject | Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 10/24] xen: mask XSAVE from cpuid |
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>>> Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> 17.03.09 11:48 >>> >> No, properly coded xsave support will (hopefully) make user-visible context >> extensions transparent to hypervisor and OS. But I was giving a general >> example here, and the change from xmm to ymm registers is one that does >> need hypervisor (and OS) changes. > >Again except for XSAVE support it doesn't, does it?
No, it shouldn't (minus the valid comments hpa added in another reply).
Jan
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