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Alok kataria wrote:
> 
> Btw, are you pushing these patches for the 2.6.27 release ? If this is
> for the x86 tree(2.6.28) i think we should hold on, until i post the
> proposal for the cpuid patches, so that we can unify this and have a
> generic way to detect on which hypervisor are we running .
> 

I don't think there is any way in hell this is going into 2.6.27.

For it to make 2.6.28 it will have to be ready very soon.

	-hpa