On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 21:38 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Rusty Russell wrote: > > > > Dammit, Eric, you spend a lot of time using words like "insane" where > > you mean we didn't do everything all at once. > > > > It's *not* clear that using %esi is sane, but nothing in the current > > code prevents that. > > Why not? (I assume you mean why isn't it clear?) Because VMI uses the presence of a ROM to indicate it's not native. KVM uses a magic MSR IIRC. I think it makes sense for lguest to change over, tho. Patches welcome 8) Rusty. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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