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Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/cpuid: Infrastructure to support pseudo feature identifiers


  • To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2022 11:55:46 +0200
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On Tue, Oct 04, 2022 at 05:08:09PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> A future change will want a cpuid-like identifier which doesn't have a mapping
> to a feature bit.

Why we prefer this logic over just giving such pseudo features a
synthetic bit or akin?

Could we have a bit more of a description about what would be
considered a pseudo feature?

Thanks, Roger.



 


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