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Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:07:03 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] CPUID usage for interaction between Hypervisors and Linux.
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 
> No, we're not getting anywhere.  This is an outright broken idea.  The 
> space is too small to be able to chop up in this way, and the number of 
> vendors too large to be able to do it without having a central oversight.
> 

I suspect we can get a larger number space if we ask Intel & AMD.  In 
fact, I think we should request that the entire 0x40xxxxxx numberspace 
is assigned to virtualization *anyway*.

	-hpa
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