Anthony Liguori writes:
> On 10/25/2010 05:48 PM, Lluís wrote:
>>> For instance, a CPUID leaf could be used in the 0x40001xxx range.
>>>
>> Right, I commented this in a previous mail as a much nicer way to do it,
>> but I was just too lazy to look up how CPUID works and instead ported
>> the impl
On 10/25/2010 05:48 PM, Lluís wrote:
For instance, a CPUID leaf could be used in the 0x40001xxx range.
Right, I commented this in a previous mail as a much nicer way to do it,
but I was just too lazy to look up how CPUID works and instead ported
the implementation I already had in bochs :)
Anthony Liguori writes:
> On 10/25/2010 08:37 AM, Lluís wrote:
>> I know extending the ISA is not nice at all, but I think that's much
>> more maintainable than a per-guest OS interface (supposing some will
>> need extra guest drivers).
> On x86, there are some architecturally nicer ways to do th
On 10/25/2010 08:37 AM, Lluís wrote:
Paolo Bonzini writes:
On 10/25/2010 12:54 PM, Lluís wrote:
* Backdoor channels need to provide arguments.
* It's better to provide the same mechanism for both *-user and softmmu
(otherwise the application to simulate or the interposed librariy
sho
Blue Swirl writes:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Lluís wrote:
>> Blue Swirl writes:
>>
>>> and there are guest visible side effects.
>>
>> I don't understand what you mean with guest-visible effects.
> The guest can examine itself and determine that it has been modified.
Well, yes, but b
Paolo Bonzini writes:
> On 10/25/2010 12:54 PM, Lluís wrote:
>> * Backdoor channels need to provide arguments.
>> * It's better to provide the same mechanism for both *-user and softmmu
>> (otherwise the application to simulate or the interposed librariy
>> should be compiled differently on every
On 10/25/2010 12:54 PM, Lluís wrote:
* Backdoor channels need to provide arguments.
* It's better to provide the same mechanism for both *-user and softmmu
(otherwise the application to simulate or the interposed librariy
should be compiled differently on every case).
You can add the sysc
