Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 17:14:03 -0700 From: Anish <akgupt3@gmail.com> To: Dee Nixon <dnixon-lists-tech@nyclocal.net> Cc: FreeBSD virtualization <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: bhyve and AMD Message-ID: <CALnRwMQaR_G%2BpupdNjpZ0B1nV%2B7SmpkvEmFKFL2b0UH4Cumb9w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4a4a183b5da1e1cee69c36af4a1acb08.squirrel@webmail.nyclocal.net> References: <5b2e09a5de1e75e0d478860731fb24d4.squirrel@webmail.nyclocal.net> <5230CE5E.3080400@freebsd.org> <bd523af14a906ffd23403ca9eabd71dd.squirrel@webmail.nyclocal.net> <5230DA9E.3090909@freebsd.org> <CALnRwMQpECOyZyVVQGLxbPzSmX2WbJ6NC-6ye7aTKkjfBKAm_w@mail.gmail.com> <4a4a183b5da1e1cee69c36af4a1acb08.squirrel@webmail.nyclocal.net>
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nRIP=97Next sequential instruction pointer from AMD programmer's manual Volume 2, appendix B This is the RIP used for next vmenter/guest execution. -Anish On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Dee Nixon <dnixon-lists-tech@nyclocal.net>wrote: > On Wed, September 11, 2013 5:20 pm, Anish wrote: > > Yes, nRIP is required and it will be hard to find AMD processor with > > SVM support that doesn't have it. We used Phenom II for bhyve port > > on AMD which is 2+ years old and has RVI and nRIP support. > > I'm sorry to have to ask this, but what is nRIP? (I tried Googling > "nRIP virtualization" and similar strings but turned up nothing > relevant. The closest I could find was a few mentions of RIP, > apparently meaning "Instruction Pointer Register" or "relative > instruction pointer".) > > >
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