From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37688) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLCkw-00031D-RV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2016 13:06:31 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLCkv-0000DB-Sc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2016 13:06:30 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:57324) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLCkv-0000Cx-Mh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2016 13:06:29 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 14:06:25 -0300 From: Eduardo Habkost Message-ID: <20160707170625.GC25492@thinpad.lan.raisama.net> References: <20160622065624.25291-3-haozhong.zhang@intel.com> <20160623061543.9332-1-haozhong.zhang@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160623061543.9332-1-haozhong.zhang@intel.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RESEND PATCH v5 2/4] i386: publish advised value of MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL via fw_cfg List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Haozhong Zhang Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Tony Luck , rkrcmar@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Michael S . Tsirkin" , Marcelo Tosatti , Andi Kleen , Paolo Bonzini , Ashok Raj , Boris Petkov , Richard Henderson On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 02:15:43PM +0800, Haozhong Zhang wrote: > It's a prerequisite that certain bits of MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL should > be set before some features (e.g. VMX and LMCE) can be used, which is > usually done by the firmware. This patch adds a fw_cfg file > "etc/msr_feature_control" which contains the advised value of > MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL and can be used by guest firmware (e.g. SeaBIOS). > > Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini > Signed-off-by: Haozhong Zhang > Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini Applied to x86-next. Thanks. -- Eduardo