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1.7 Revision History
Date of
Revision
Revision
Number
Description
March 2010 2.3 Added information about illegal virtualization optimization combinations and
IIPA requirements.
Added Resource Utilization Counter and PAL_VP_INFO.
PAL_VP_INIT and VPD.vpr changes.
New PAL_VPS_RESUME_HANDLER parameter to indicate RSE Current
Frame Load Enable setting at the target instruction.
PAL_VP_INIT_ENV implementation-specific configuration option.
Minimum Virtual address increased to 54 bits.
New PAL_MC_ERROR_INFO health indicator.
New PAL_MC_ERROR_INJECT implementation-specific bit fields.
MOV-to_SR.L reserved field checking.
Added virtual machine disable.
Added variable frequency mode additions to ACPI P-state description.
Removed
pal_proc_vector argument from PAL_VP_SAVE and
PAL_VP_RESTORE.
Added PAL_PROC_SET_FEATURES data speculation disable.
Added Interruption Instruction Bundle registers.
Min-state save area size change.
PAL_MC_DYNAMIC_STATE changes.
PAL_PROC_SET_FEATURES data poisoning promotion changes.
ACPI P-state clarifications.
Synchronization requirements for virtualization opcode optimization.
New priority hint and multi-threading hint recommendations.