Re: [PATCH 4/8] unify paravirt parts of system.h

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sat Dec 15 2007 - 15:33:19 EST

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Pavel Machek wrote:

It probably is safe to remove... but we currently support '2.8.95
kernel loads/resumes 2.6.24 image'... which would break if 2.8 uses
cr8.

So please keep it if it is not a big problem.

Note that CR8 is an alias for the TPR in the APIC.

-hpa
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