linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: detect running on a HyperV system

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Message-ID: <4BE314CD.6060701@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 06 May 2010 12:13:17 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
CC:	asdf@...ah.com, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Vadim Rozenfeld <vrozenfe@...hat.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
	Hank Janssen <hjanssen@...rosoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: detect running on a HyperV system

On 05/06/2010 12:08 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> x86-maintainers, we need this patch in the tree to get a -staging driver
> to work properly.  If you don't object, can I take it through the
> staging tree?  Or do you want to take it in -tip?
> 

I'd prefer to take it in -tip, partly because I would like to rework a
few things -- including preexisting braindamage like c->x86_hyper_vendor
(since when was hypervisor vendor a per-cpu property!?)

I'll try to get to it today, if not feel free to bug me.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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