[PATCH] PPC64: Add VMX save flag to VPA

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Sat Aug 6 04:02:33 EST 2005


On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 12:38:50PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:

> Out of interest, I'm assuming this extension to pacaData is part of  
> some software spec?  Or is this specific to Linux.
> 
> I ask because one of the issues we are going to run into when merging  
> ppc32/ppc64 is the lack of public information about hypervisor  
> interfaces.

Yes, this is architected in a document called PAPR (Power Architecture
Platform Requirements). It used to be called RPA (Risc Platform
Archiecture). At this time there is no publically available version of
this document.


-Olof



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