On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 07:46:14AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > > > +void
> > > > +loadCapabilities(FILE *cpuinfo, FILE *capabilities, char *hvm_type,
> > > > + int *host_pae, char *line, int LINE_SIZE)
> > > > +{
> > > > + struct {
> > > > + uint32_t r_eax, r_ebx, r_ecx, r_edx;
> > > > + } _r, *rp = &_r;
> > > > + int d, cmd;
> > > > + char *s;
> > > > + hypercall_t hc;
> > >
> > > So that's arch dependant right ? Could you
> >
> > In terms of cpuid, it works on Linux too, except that Linux has
> > /dev/cpu/0/cpuid and we have /dev/cpu/self/cpuid. Also I don't think you
> > can rely on the Linux driver being available.
>
> Hum, I reacted to the names which to me were register names, and then
> I assumed this was arch specific, i.e. would generate problems say on PPC.
> It seems your solaris code is x86_64 exclusively. In a linux section we
> will need to take care of ppc, ia64 and i386 too. So thing like eax, ebx
> ecx and edx looks suspicious to me.
Sorry, I misread that as "OS dependent". You're right that it's specific
to x86 (though should work on x86_64 and i386?)
regards
john