Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: x86: report lapic version as 0x14 instead of 0x11

[Alexander Graf]

Gabriel L. Somlo wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 11:44:33AM +0800, Alexander Graf wrote:
>   
>> Deja vu :). Should we really set this to thd least compatible version or 
>> rather to a current one that resembles roughly what we support? Otherwise 
>> patches like this will come up for every new osx release.
>>
>> What is the version in Haswell?
>>     
>
> I don't know specifically about Haswell, but OS X has been checking
> for lapic_version >= 14 ever since 10.5, same check, same number.
>
> The latest Intel manual I could find (Feb.2014) says (Vol 3A, page 10-11)
> that the version is contained in bits 0-8 of the version register, and
> that values are 0x00 for the 82489 discrete apic, and 0x10 - 0x15 for
> integrated apic, all other values are reserved.
>
> So I guess we could make it 0x15 and be done with it for a (hopefully)
> long time :)
>   

Sounds good to me :)


Alex