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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH  -v2] Monitor command: pfa2hva, translate guest
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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:02:02 +0100
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> The issue of d) is that there are multiple ways to inject MCE. Now one
> software based, one APEI based, and maybe some others in the future.
> They all use different interfaces. And as debug interface, there are not
> considered kernel ABI too (some are in debugfs). So I think it is better
> to use these ABI only in some test suite.

In some cases the injection may be also through external hardware
debugging mechanisms. So yes requiring that in qemu isn't a good
idea.

-Andi
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