> Btw, would it have any benefit of writing a "magic" value in m.bank > to denote the error comes from APEI instead of number of banks which > differs between generations? > > Something like > > m.bank = -1; > > or so?
That might be a bit more obvious than my subtle "one more than possible on this platform" magic number. > 255 banks will never happen anyway! (Famous last words ... :-))) Intel is stuck at 32 unless we come up with a new mechanism and change all the code that generates MSR numbers with "base + 4*i". There are some virtualization MSRs allocated at what would be bank32. -Tony
