Alok Kataria wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > Its not a user who has to do anything special here. > There are *intelligent* VM developers out there who can export a > different CPUid interface depending on the guest OS type. And this is > what most of the hypervisors do (not necessarily for CPUID, but for > other things right now). > It doesn't matter, really; it's still the wrong thing to do, for the same reason it's the wrong thing in -- for example -- ACPI, which has similar "cleverness". If we want to have a "Linux standard CPUID interface" suite we should just put them on a different set of numbers and let a hypervisor export all the interfaces. -hpa _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
