Re: [PATCH 1/8] Move MSR accessors into the sub-arch layer

2005-08-07 Thread Chris Wright
* H. Peter Anvin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I would like to strongly request one addition, however: please make it > so that a subarchitecture which is still a hardware architecture doesn't > have to redefine all of these every time. Yep, that's done. As long as the defaults are ok, the

Re: [PATCH 1/8] Move MSR accessors into the sub-arch layer

2005-08-07 Thread Chris Wright
* H. Peter Anvin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I would like to strongly request one addition, however: please make it so that a subarchitecture which is still a hardware architecture doesn't have to redefine all of these every time. Yep, that's done. As long as the defaults are ok, the subarch

Re: [PATCH 1/8] Move MSR accessors into the sub-arch layer

2005-08-06 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Chris Wright wrote: * Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: i386 Transparent Paravirtualization Subarch Patch #1 This change encapsulates MSR register accessors and moves them into the sub-architecture layer. The goal is a clean, uniform interface that may be redefined on new

Re: [PATCH 1/8] Move MSR accessors into the sub-arch layer

2005-08-06 Thread Chris Wright
* Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > i386 Transparent Paravirtualization Subarch Patch #1 > > This change encapsulates MSR register accessors and moves them into the > sub-architecture layer. The goal is a clean, uniform interface that may > be redefined on new sub-architectures of

[PATCH 1/8] Move MSR accessors into the sub-arch layer

2005-08-06 Thread Zachary Amsden
i386 Transparent Paravirtualization Subarch Patch #1 This change encapsulates MSR register accessors and moves them into the sub-architecture layer. The goal is a clean, uniform interface that may be redefined on new sub-architectures of i386. Diffs against: linux-2.6.13-rc4-mm1

[PATCH 1/8] Move MSR accessors into the sub-arch layer

2005-08-06 Thread Zachary Amsden
i386 Transparent Paravirtualization Subarch Patch #1 This change encapsulates MSR register accessors and moves them into the sub-architecture layer. The goal is a clean, uniform interface that may be redefined on new sub-architectures of i386. Diffs against: linux-2.6.13-rc4-mm1

Re: [PATCH 1/8] Move MSR accessors into the sub-arch layer

2005-08-06 Thread Chris Wright
* Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: i386 Transparent Paravirtualization Subarch Patch #1 This change encapsulates MSR register accessors and moves them into the sub-architecture layer. The goal is a clean, uniform interface that may be redefined on new sub-architectures of i386. I

Re: [PATCH 1/8] Move MSR accessors into the sub-arch layer

2005-08-06 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Chris Wright wrote: * Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: i386 Transparent Paravirtualization Subarch Patch #1 This change encapsulates MSR register accessors and moves them into the sub-architecture layer. The goal is a clean, uniform interface that may be redefined on new