On Tue, Jul 24, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > +/* > + * The guest OS needs to register the guest ID with the hypervisor. > + * The guest ID is a 64 bit entity and the structure of this ID is > + * specified in the Hyper-V specification: > + * > + * http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/ > + * hardware/ff542653%28v=vs.85%29.aspx > + * > + * While the current guideline does not specify how Linux guest ID(s) > + * need to be generated, our plan is to publish the guidelines for > + * Linux and other guest operating systems that currently are hosted > + * on Hyper-V. The implementation here conforms to this yet > + * unpublished guidelines. > + * > + * > + * Bit(s) > + * 63 - Indicates if the OS is Open Source or not; 1 is Open Source > + * 62:56 - Os Type; Linux is 0x100 > + * 55:48 - Distro specific identification > + * 47:16 - Linux kernel version number > + * 15:0 - Distro specific identification > + * > + * > + */ > + > +#define HV_LINUX_VENDOR_ID 0x8100 I suggest to drop bit 63, why would the hypervisor care about that weird detail? Olaf _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
