bhyve and AMD

[Anish]

nRIP—Next 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 at 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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