Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] [x86] Add Core 2 Duo CPU specification

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Alexander Graf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this set of patches attempts to implement a CPU definition set for 
> current Intel CPUs that resembles an original as closely as currently 
> possible. Several features a current Intel CPU has are not implemented 
> by qemu, but that should not keep us from adding this definition so 
> people can add features later on.
>
> As a side effect, I made the sysenter instruction 64-bit aware. This 
> was an issue in KVM, that used the 32-bit cpu struct variables to hold 
> 64-bit MSR  values sysenter needs. I believe it to be a step in the 
> right direction to not fix this only for KVM, but make the 
> functionality available to qemu as well.

Does anyone have any objections to this series?  I see no obvious flaws 
and it looks to be quite self contained.  My understanding is that this 
is needed to enable OS X guest support so it seems worthwhile to apply 
to me.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Alex
>
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