Re: [RFC] CPUID usage for interaction between Hypervisors and Linux.

[H. Peter Anvin]

Alok Kataria wrote:
> Hi Peter, 
>
> Its not a user who has to do anything special here.
> There are *intelligent* VM developers out there who can export a
> different CPUid interface depending on the guest OS type. And this is
> what most of the hypervisors do (not necessarily for CPUID, but for
> other things right now).

It doesn't matter, really; it's still the wrong thing to do, for the 
same reason it's the wrong thing in -- for example -- ACPI, which has 
similar "cleverness".

If we want to have a "Linux standard CPUID interface" suite we should 
just put them on a different set of numbers and let a hypervisor export 
all the interfaces.

	-hpa
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