Re: Dynamic nop selection breaks boot on Geode LX

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Oct 04 2010 - 18:33:26 EST


On 10/04/2010 03:25 PM, Nick Lowe wrote:
> > As far as I'm aware, the check is just broken in VMs that trace their
> > lineage to Connectix's VirtualPC that Microsoft acquired back in 2006.
> > Is this correct? On balance, is this really to be cared about?
If it was a huge win from using NOPL, then it would perhaps not be -- or
we'd go through more effort at detecting the broken cases. However,
since it's not, it's easier to just avoid it.

-hpa
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