Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:29:24 -0800 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 14/35] subarch modify CPU capabilities |
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* Keir Fraser (Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk) wrote: > > 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.
Agreed, added to todo.
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