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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: New CPUID/MSR driver; virtualization hooks
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:40:18 -0700
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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