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Date:      Mon, 11 Apr 2016 09:01:38 -0400
From:      Shawn Webb <shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org>
To:        Anish Gupta <anish@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r297806 - head/sys/amd64/vmm/amd
Message-ID:  <20160411130138.GA56696@mutt-hardenedbsd>
In-Reply-To: <201604110509.u3B59iFs000620@repo.freebsd.org>
References:  <201604110509.u3B59iFs000620@repo.freebsd.org>

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On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 05:09:44AM +0000, Anish Gupta wrote:
> Author: anish
> Date: Mon Apr 11 05:09:43 2016
> New Revision: 297806
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/297806
>=20
> Log:
>   Allow guest writes to AMD microcode update[0xc0010020] MSR without upda=
ting actual hardware MSR. This allows guest microcode update to go through =
which otherwise failing because wrmsr() was returning EINVAL.

Pardon my ignorance, but does that mean that prior to this commit, a
bhyve guest on AMD could modify hardware?

Thanks,

--=20
Shawn Webb
HardenedBSD

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