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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Mohammed Gamal <m.gamal005@gmail.com>,
	Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@ext.bull.net>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Subject: Re: Real Mode Improvement on Intel Hosts - GSoC Project
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:49:41 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4812D085.1000906@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4810AFD3.4080901@codemonkey.ws>

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> The second stage is to use a loop of x86_emulate() to run all 16-bit 
> code (instead of using vm86 mode).  This will allow us to support guests 
> that use big real mode.
>
>   

Why do that unconditionally, instead of only when in a big-real-mode state?

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-26  6:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-24 14:58 Real Mode Improvement on Intel Hosts - GSoC Project Mohammed Gamal
2008-04-24 15:47 ` Avi Kivity
2008-04-24 15:53   ` Mohammed Gamal
2008-04-24 16:05 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-04-25  6:05   ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2008-04-25  6:51     ` Avi Kivity
2008-04-25  7:27       ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2008-04-26  6:49   ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-04-26  9:29     ` Mohammed Gamal
2008-04-26 21:02       ` Avi Kivity
2008-04-26 15:19     ` Anthony Liguori

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