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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: "Nakajima, Jun" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
	kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Refactor hypercall infrastructure
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:53:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46EB6556.5020506@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <97D612E30E1F88419025B06CB4CF1BE10379ED4C@scsmsx412.amr.corp.intel.com>

Nakajima, Jun wrote:
> The hypervisor detection machanism is generic, and the signature
> returned is implentation specific. Having a list of all hypervisor
> signatures sounds fine to me as we are detecting vendor-specific
> processor(s) in the native. And I don't expect the list is large. 
>
>   

I'm confused about what you're proposing.  I was thinking that a kernel
looking for the generic hypervisor interface would check for a specific
signature at some cpuid leaf, and then go about using it from there.  If
not, how does is it supposed to detect the generic hypervisor interface?

    J

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-15  4:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-14 19:45 [PATCH] Refactor hypercall infrastructure Anthony Liguori
2007-09-14 20:53 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-09-14 21:02   ` [kvm-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2007-09-14 21:20     ` Zachary Amsden
2007-09-14 21:44       ` Anthony Liguori
2007-09-15  3:37         ` Zachary Amsden
2007-09-15  8:08           ` Avi Kivity
2007-09-15 17:33           ` Anthony Liguori
2007-09-14 21:22     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-09-14 21:46       ` Anthony Liguori
2007-09-14 21:52         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-09-14 22:08           ` Anthony Liguori
2007-09-14 22:40             ` Nakajima, Jun
2007-09-14 23:00               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-09-15  0:10                 ` Nakajima, Jun
2007-09-15  0:28                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-09-15  1:04                     ` Nakajima, Jun
2007-09-15  4:53                       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2007-09-15  6:11                         ` Nakajima, Jun
2007-09-15 18:23                           ` Anthony Liguori
2007-09-17 18:14                             ` Nakajima, Jun
2007-09-17 18:27                               ` Anthony Liguori
2007-09-17 19:15                                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-09-17 19:33                                   ` Anthony Liguori
2007-09-17 19:15                               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-09-17 20:52                                 ` Nakajima, Jun
2007-09-15  8:00               ` Avi Kivity
2007-09-15  7:53     ` Avi Kivity
2007-09-15  2:35   ` Rusty Russell

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