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Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 16:02:10 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ky Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com>
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       Hank Janssen <hjanssen@microsoft.com>,
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Subject: Re: RFC - Cleaned up hypervisor layer
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On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 03:43:04PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> This patch implements a cleaned up hypervisor layer, plus cleans up some
> of the aspects of both Hank's MS-HyperV patch and the existing VMware
> driver.  In particular, the MS-HyperV information is private
> information, per system, not per CPU, and can thus simply be stored in
> an ordinary global variable.  This also turns the hypervisor detection
> into an information structure instead of just an identifier.

This looks great to me, thanks for doing this work.

As this is a diff on top of my previous patch, do you want me to merge
it in with it and resend it, or will you?

thanks,

greg k-h