On Fri, Mar 30, 2012, Jake Thomas wrote about "VT-X Locking Bit Flip in Real Mode?": > The assumption here is that once the locking bit is in the > "locked" position, you can't unlock it until a power cycle unlocks it.
This is indeed what the Intel spec say - unless I'm misunderstanding something. > But I can't help but wonder if you can flip the locking bit from > the "locked" position to the "unlocked" position if you're still in > real mode. What makes you think that being in real mode makes a difference? As far as I know, it doesn't. Any reason why you think it does? -- Nadav Har'El | Saturday, Mar 31 2012, [email protected] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Take my advice, I don't use it anyway. http://nadav.harel.org.il | -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
