Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/amd: fix crash as Xen Dom0 on AMD Trinitysystems

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 05/30/2012 11:19 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 08:17:23PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> The other place where we use the amd_safe variants is an obscure K8,
>> revC and earlier fix for _some_ BIOSen and this hasn't bitten us yet
>> so I'm assuming people haven't run xen on such boxes yet. Does it need
>> fixing? Probably, if we really really have to.
> 
> I'm being told we're safe here. Those boxes didn't have virtualization
> support yet (SVM) so this one doesn't need fixing.
> 

This is for PV, not for HVM (VT-x/SVM).  HVM doesn't have this kind of
drain bamage.

	-hpa
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