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To: Jimi Xenidis <jimix@watson.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't access HID registers if running on a Hypervisor.
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On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 07:15:55PM -0400, Jimi Xenidis wrote:
> 
> The following patch avoids accessing Hypervisor privilege HID
> registers when running on a Hypervisor (MSR[HV]=0).

I'm curious, why is this causing problems now? JS20 has been running
that code with a hypervisor since a long time back.


-Olof