Alexander Graf wrote: > > On May 6, 2008, at 6:27 PM, Glauber Costa wrote: > >> qemu recently added support for 3dnow instructions. Because of >> that, 3dnow will be featured among cpuid bits. But this will >> break kvm in cpus that don't have those instructions (which includes >> my laptop). So we fixup our cpuid before exposing it to the guest. > > I actually don't see where the problem is here. As far as I read the > code, the CPUID feature function gets received from the host CPU and > bitwise ANDed with a bunch of features that are known to work. What's > wrong with that approach? Probably is that besides that known to work features, there are also features that qemu puts in unconditionally. Among them, 3DNOW.
> But I'm pretty sure Dao can tell us a lot more about this. Sure, it would be welcome. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
