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Bug#592428: Fix 2.6.32 XEN guest on old buggy RHEL5/EC2 hypervisor (XSAVE)



On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 07:55 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> It's not clear that xsave could ever be usable by PV guests, even in 
> principle, so its probably all completely over-engineered.  If setting
> X86_CR4_OSXSAVE is problematic, then simply adding it to the list of 
> things we mask out of cpuid is probably the best fix. 

Agreed and I think on that basis we should take the proposed patch into
the Debian kernel.

Ian.

-- 
Ian Campbell

... eighty years later he could still recall with the young pang of his
original joy his falling in love with Ada.
		-- Nabokov




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