On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 21:38 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Rusty Russell wrote:
> > 
> > Dammit, Eric, you spend a lot of time using words like "insane" where
> > you mean we didn't do everything all at once.
> > 
> > It's *not* clear that using %esi is sane, but nothing in the current
> > code prevents that.
> 
> Why not?

(I assume you mean why isn't it clear?)

Because VMI uses the presence of a ROM to indicate it's not native.  KVM
uses a magic MSR IIRC.

I think it makes sense for lguest to change over, tho.  Patches welcome
8)

Rusty.


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Reply via email to