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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: New CPUID/MSR driver; virtualization hooks
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:40:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46156CC2.7080600@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <461569B7.7060008@vmware.com>

Zachary Amsden wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>
>> It seems to me that perhaps this is the way to do it:
>>
>> - Add cpuid_everything, rdmsr_everything and wrmsr_everything
>>   entrypoints;
> 
> Yes, although I think we can omit rdmsr / wrmsr.

I actually expect rdmsr/wrmsr to have a higher likelihood of weird 
things.  I don't know how many hypervisors can trap and handle those.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-05 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-05  0:50 New CPUID/MSR driver; virtualization hooks H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-05  1:16 ` Chris Wright
2007-04-05  1:23   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-05  5:17     ` Zachary Amsden
2007-04-05 18:03       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-05 21:09         ` Zachary Amsden
2007-04-05 21:09           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-05 21:25             ` Zachary Amsden
2007-04-05 21:17           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-05 21:27             ` Zachary Amsden
2007-04-05 21:40               ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-04-05 21:43                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-05 21:43                 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-04-05 21:49                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-05 21:59                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-05 22:19                       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-05 22:31                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-05 21:54                   ` Chris Wright
2007-04-05  1:48 ` Tony Breeds
2007-04-05  5:00 ` Zachary Amsden

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