[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/27] Add a hook to allow hypercalls to be emulated on PowerPC

2011-03-31 Thread David Gibson
PowerPC and POWER chips since the POWER4 and 970 have a special hypervisor mode, and a corresponding form of the system call instruction which traps to the hypervisor. qemu currently has stub implementations of hypervisor mode. That is, the outline is there to allow qemu to run a PowerPC

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/27] Add a hook to allow hypercalls to be emulated on PowerPC

2011-03-22 Thread David Gibson
PowerPC and POWER chips since the POWER4 and 970 have a special hypervisor mode, and a corresponding form of the system call instruction which traps to the hypervisor. qemu currently has stub implementations of hypervisor mode. That is, the outline is there to allow qemu to run a PowerPC