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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
	akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	davej@codemonkey.org.uk, Riley@Williams.Name, pratap@vmware.com,
	chrisl@vmware.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] Move MSR accessors into the sub-arch layer
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 19:25:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42F57104.5090208@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050807010247.GF7762@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>

Chris Wright wrote:
> * Zachary Amsden (zach@vmware.com) wrote:
> 
>>i386 Transparent Paravirtualization Subarch Patch #1
>>
>>This change encapsulates MSR register accessors and moves them into the
>>sub-architecture layer.  The goal is a clean, uniform interface that may
>>be redefined on new sub-architectures of i386.
> 
> I currently have nothing analgous for Xen, but this one looks sane.

I would like to strongly request one addition, however: please make it 
so that a subarchitecture which is still a hardware architecture doesn't 
have to redefine all of these every time.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-07  2:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-06  7:10 [PATCH 1/8] Move MSR accessors into the sub-arch layer Zachary Amsden
2005-08-07  1:02 ` Chris Wright
2005-08-07  2:25   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-08-07  7:08     ` Chris Wright

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