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Date:      Fri, 20 May 2011 18:45:35 -0400
From:      Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r222150 - in stable/8/sys: amd64/amd64 amd64/include i386/i386 i386/include
Message-ID:  <201105201845.37305.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110520223048.GI48734@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
References:  <201105202222.p4KMMuqT003163@svn.freebsd.org> <20110520223048.GI48734@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>

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On Friday 20 May 2011 06:30 pm, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:22:56PM +0000, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> > Author: jkim
> > Date: Fri May 20 22:22:56 2011
> > New Revision: 222150
> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/222150
> >
> > Log:
> >   MFC:	r221188
> >
> >   Define "Hypervisor Present" bit.  This bit is used by several
> > hypervisors to identify CPUs running under emulation.
>
> In the latest revision of the Software Developer's Manual, Intel
> stated that bit 31 is always 0 for the real CPUs. So it is as much
> official as it can be.

OTOH, AMD's "CPUID Specification" says "Reserved for use by hypervisor 
to indicate guest status". :-)

Jung-uk Kim



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