[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH][STABLE] fix CPUID vendor override

[Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 04/11/2010 10:21 PM, Andre Przywara wrote:
>> the meaning of vendor_override is actually the opposite of how it
>> is currently used :-(
>> Fix it to allow KVM to export the non-native CPUID vendor if
>> explicitly requested by the user.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara<andre.przywara@amd.com>
>> ---
>>   target-i386/helper.c |    2 +-
>>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> I will send a refactoring patch including this fix for git HEAD later.
>>    
> 
> The protocol is to first fix HEAD, then backport, so we don't introduce 
> regressions inadvertently.
Well, I just followed the call for 0.12.4. Actually this is the 
backport, one cannot easily cherry-pick the upstream patch, because it 
is in a different file now. I will send the (separated) upstream patch 
in a few minutes. Feel free to apply them in whatever order you prefer ;-)


Regards,
Andre.

P.S. I also have a qemu-kvm patch in the queue (because there was a 
separate workaround for this bug).

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Andre Przywara
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