Re: Use CPUID to communicate with the hypervisor.

[Avi Kivity]

Tim Deegan wrote:
> I was talking about checking every 256 leaves from 0x40000000, but I
> can't remember where I heard it.  The only relevant reference I can
> find is the MS hypervisor interface spec's description of leaf
> 0x40000001: "Hypervisor vendor-neutral interface identification.  This
> determines the semantics of the leaves from 0x40000002 through
> 0x400000FF"
>
>   

This was discussed at the virtualization mini summit (can't remember who 
brought it up).

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