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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: "Roedel, Joerg" <Joerg.Roedel@amd.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] test: verify that the emulator honours svm intercepts
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:45:40 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C513FB4.5030709@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100729075953.GK26098@amd.com>

  On 07/29/2010 10:59 AM, Roedel, Joerg wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 03:48:55AM -0400, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>    On 07/29/2010 10:43 AM, Roedel, Joerg wrote:
>>> Another question, is
>>> there any way to run these tests bare-metal to verify them first on real
>>> silicon?
>> Sure, you can use grub's multiboot capabilities to boot a .flat file.
> This requires to objcopy them to a binary format first, no? The
> multiboot spec states that the binaries need to be 32 bit elf files
> while the .flat files are 64 bit per default. I think I remember that
> grub checks for that. Anyway, thats an easy thing to do.

They are multiboot files, that's how -kernel manages to load them (it's 
a multiboot + linux bootloader).

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-29  8:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-28 16:25 [PATCH 0/6] svm intercept tests Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 16:25 ` [PATCH 1/6] test: add scratch word for use by svm tests Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 16:25 ` [PATCH 2/6] test: add intercepted and unintercepted cr3 read tests for svm Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 16:25 ` [PATCH 3/6] test: add pause() instruction accessor Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 16:25 ` [PATCH 4/6] test: add cli() and sti() instruction accessors Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 16:25 ` [PATCH 5/6] test: ensure svm tests are executed with interrupts disabled by default Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 16:25 ` [PATCH 6/6] test: verify that the emulator honours svm intercepts Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 18:04   ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-29  7:43     ` Roedel, Joerg
2010-07-29  7:48       ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-29  7:59         ` Roedel, Joerg
2010-07-29  8:45           ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-07-29  8:16 ` [PATCH 0/6] svm intercept tests Roedel, Joerg
2010-07-29 21:40   ` Marcelo Tosatti

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