From: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Greg KH (gregkh@linuxfoundation.org)"
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"devel@linuxdriverproject.org" <devel@linuxdriverproject.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"virtualization@lists.osdl.org" <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>
Subject: RE: 0xB16B00B5? Really? (was Re: Move hyperv out of the drivers/staging/ directory)
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:53:12 +0000 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <20120719153014.GA13235@x1.osrc.amd.com>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Borislav Petkov [mailto:bp@alien8.de]
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 11:30 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini; Greg KH (gregkh@linuxfoundation.org);
> devel@linuxdriverproject.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
> virtualization@lists.osdl.org
> Subject: Re: 0xB16B00B5? Really? (was Re: Move hyperv out of the
> drivers/staging/ directory)
>
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 02:11:47AM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> > As I noted earlier, this is just a guest ID that needs to be
> > registered with the hypervisor. Thanks for reporting this issue and
> > on behalf of Microsoft, I would like to apologize for this offensive
> > string. I have submitted a patch to fix this issue.
>
> Ok, quick question:
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
> us/library/windows/hardware/ff542653%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
>
> says that that guest ID encodes a bunch of version numbers and IDs
> pertaining to the guest OS. And in that case, I would've thought
> you'd encode kernel versions or whatever like it is done with
> LINUX_VERSION_CODE, for example.
>
> How does this define fit with that scheme or was it chosen completely
> arbitrarily?
>From what I know, this constant was chosen I think, completely arbitrarily.
Currently, the hypervisor does not interpret this, however the host partition
can retrieve it.
Regards,
K. Y
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-19 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-22 16:17 Hyper-V TODO file K. Y. Srinivasan
2011-09-22 16:05 ` Joe Perches
2011-09-22 17:04 ` Greg KH
2011-09-22 17:20 ` KY Srinivasan
2011-09-22 17:36 ` Greg KH
2011-09-22 18:22 ` KY Srinivasan
2011-10-04 13:59 ` KY Srinivasan
2011-10-04 17:04 ` Greg KH
2011-10-04 17:23 ` KY Srinivasan
2011-10-04 19:34 ` Move hyperv out of the drivers/staging/ directory Greg KH
2011-10-04 21:22 ` KY Srinivasan
2011-10-05 2:49 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-13 10:23 ` 0xB16B00B5? Really? (was Re: Move hyperv out of the drivers/staging/ directory) Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-13 13:13 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-13 13:15 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-13 13:21 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-13 20:30 ` 2976579765? " Paul Bolle
2012-07-13 13:24 ` 0xB16B00B5? " Borislav Petkov
2012-07-13 19:00 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-07-14 10:50 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-13 15:27 ` [PATCH] hv: Change the guest ID value Matthew Garrett
2012-07-19 2:11 ` 0xB16B00B5? Really? (was Re: Move hyperv out of the drivers/staging/ directory) KY Srinivasan
2012-07-19 15:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-19 15:53 ` KY Srinivasan [this message]
2012-07-19 21:07 ` Greg KH (gregkh@linuxfoundation.org)
2012-07-19 21:22 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-19 22:01 ` Greg KH (gregkh@linuxfoundation.org)
2012-07-19 22:30 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-19 23:18 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-07-20 0:37 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-19 23:28 ` Greg KH (gregkh@linuxfoundation.org)
2012-07-20 0:41 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-20 7:59 ` Bjørn Mork
2012-07-20 8:03 ` [PATCH] drivers: hv: use Linux version in guest ID Bjørn Mork
2012-07-20 15:26 ` Greg KH
2012-07-20 16:02 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-20 16:09 ` Greg KH
2012-07-22 15:16 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-08-13 13:00 ` Bjørn Mork
2012-08-13 13:04 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-08-13 13:33 ` Bjørn Mork
2012-08-13 14:20 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-20 14:00 ` 0xB16B00B5? Really? (was Re: Move hyperv out of the drivers/staging/ directory) KY Srinivasan
2012-07-20 15:03 ` richard -rw- weinberger
2012-07-20 15:16 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-07-21 23:21 ` valdis.kletnieks
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