On Tuesday 25 September 2007, Avi Kivity wrote: > J. Mayer wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 11:01 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > >> Dan Kenigsberg wrote: > >>> On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 03:28:24AM +0200, andrzej zaborowski wrote: > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> On 24/09/2007, Dan Kenigsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> As with previous "Takes" of this patch, its purpose is to expose host > >>>>> +{ > >>>>> + asm("cpuid" > >>>>> + : "=a" (*ax), > >>>>> + "=b" (*bx), > >>>>> + "=c" (*cx), > >>>>> + "=d" (*dx) > >>>>> + : "a" (function)); > >>>>> +} > >>>> > Indeed for regular qemu this is useless. But it is useful for kqemu > (for which there is support in mainline qemu), and for kvm (which we > hope to merge one day).
And, as discussed before, it should be asking the hypervisor what features it supports instead of trying to guess from the cpuid output. Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel