Alexander Graf wrote: > > On May 6, 2008, at 6:27 PM, Glauber Costa wrote: > >> qemu recently added support for 3dnow instructions. Because of >> that, 3dnow will be featured among cpuid bits. But this will >> break kvm in cpus that don't have those instructions (which includes >> my laptop). So we fixup our cpuid before exposing it to the guest. > > I actually don't see where the problem is here. As far as I read the > code, the CPUID feature function gets received from the host CPU and > bitwise ANDed with a bunch of features that are known to work. What's > wrong with that approach?
Nothing. Note that "known to work" needs to be queried from the kernel, since userspace and the kernel are not guaranteed to match. > But I'm pretty sure Dao can tell us a lot more about this. Has there > been any progress in getting the new CPUID code in? I think I could > review this sometime soon. Who's Dao? Do you mean Dan? -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
