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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/31] KVM/MIPS: Implement hardware virtualization via the MIPS-VZ extensions.
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From: Sanjay Lal <sanjayl@kymasys.com>
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On Jun 7, 2013, at 4:03 PM, David Daney wrote:

> From: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
> 
> These patches take a somewhat different approach to MIPS
> virtualization via the MIPS-VZ extensions than the patches previously
> sent by Sanjay Lal.
> 
> Several facts about the code:
> 
> 
> o Currently probably only usable on the OCTEON III CPU model, as some
>  MIPS-VZ implementation-defined behaviors were assumed to have the
>  OCTEON III behavior.
> 


I've only briefly gone over the patches, but I was wondering if the Cavium implementation has support for GuestIDs, which are optional in the VZ-ASE?

Regards
Sanjay