Re: Use CPUID to communicate with the hypervisor.

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Sep 26 2008 - 22:03:41 EST


Nakajima, Jun wrote:

Agreed. However, that's obviously beyond our immediate control.

Well, actually it's under full control of the Linux community because the _kernel_ defines such virtual or semi-hardware features. I'm not sure if that particular value (0x40000010) is proper, but we should be able to pick reasonable ones/ranges.


Uhm, no, they're defined by the _hypervisor_.

-hpa
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