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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prev 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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