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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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 10:19:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4813481D.7020606@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4812D085.1000906@qumranet.com>

Avi Kivity wrote:
> 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?

It can be.  It's probably easier from a development perspective to make 
it unconditional and then to flush out all the necessary instructions.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-26 15:19 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
2008-04-26  9:29     ` Mohammed Gamal
2008-04-26 21:02       ` Avi Kivity
2008-04-26 15:19     ` Anthony Liguori [this message]

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