linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] VMware guest detection for x86 and x86-64

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Message-ID: <48DA68FF.3030202@zytor.com>
Date:	Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:21:19 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Alok kataria <alokkataria1@...il.com>
CC:	Yan Li <elliot.li.tech@...il.com>,
	Cristi Magherusan <cristi.magherusan@....utcluj.ro>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	joerg.roedel@....com, rjmaomao@...il.com,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, nancydreaming@...il.com,
	akataria@...are.com, Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>,
	Daniel Hecht <dhecht@...are.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] VMware guest detection for x86 and x86-64

Alok kataria wrote:
> 
> Btw, are you pushing these patches for the 2.6.27 release ? If this is
> for the x86 tree(2.6.28) i think we should hold on, until i post the
> proposal for the cpuid patches, so that we can unify this and have a
> generic way to detect on which hypervisor are we running .
> 

I don't think there is any way in hell this is going into 2.6.27.

For it to make 2.6.28 it will have to be ready very soon.

	-hpa
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