Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] push CPUID level to 4 to allow Intel multicore decoding

[Avi Kivity]

On 08/19/2009 04:42 PM, Andre Przywara wrote:
> Intel CPUs store the number of cores in CPUID leaf 4. So push
> the maxleaf value to 4 to allow the guests access to this leaf.
>    

There's a slight compatibility risk here.  If a guest has broken 
handling for cpuid level 4, then upgrading qemu would cause it to behave 
differently.

I don't think that's an issue for this patch, just highlighting the need 
for a systematic treatment of backward compatibility.

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