Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932080AbWCVV5m (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:57:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932070AbWCVV5m (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:57:42 -0500 Received: from 216-99-217-87.dsl.aracnet.com ([216.99.217.87]:47490 "EHLO sorel.sous-sol.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932080AbWCVV5l (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:57:41 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:57:32 -0800 From: Chris Wright To: Andi Kleen Cc: Chris Wright , virtualization@lists.osdl.org, Zachary Amsden , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Xen-devel , Andrew Morton , Dan Hecht , Dan Arai , Anne Holler , Pratap Subrahmanyam , Christopher Li , Joshua LeVasseur , Chris Wright , Rik Van Riel , Jyothy Reddy , Jack Lo , Kip Macy , Jan Beulich , Ky Srinivasan , Wim Coekaerts , Leendert van Doorn Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH 1/24] i386 Vmi documentation Message-ID: <20060322215732.GL15997@sorel.sous-sol.org> References: <200603131759.k2DHxeep005627@zach-dev.vmware.com> <200603222105.58912.ak@suse.de> <20060322213435.GI15997@sorel.sous-sol.org> <200603222213.45910.ak@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200603222213.45910.ak@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 608 Lines: 15 * Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de) wrote: > Even then it's useless for many flags because any user program can (and will) > call CPUID directly. Yes, doesn't handle userspace at all. It's useful only to get coherent view of flags in kernel. Right now, for example, Xen goes in and basically masks off flags retroactively which is not that nice either. thanks, -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/