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From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Xen's use of PAT and PV guests
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:59:02 +0100
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On 30/03/2010 18:39, "Jeremy Fitzhardinge" <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:

> Does Xen guarantee that PAT is always available to vcpus as part of its
> ABI  (ie, do we support any pre-PAT cpus?).

As it happens I think we do only support CPUs that have PAT. But you can
always check CPUID, just like running natively.

 -- Keir