linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/9] x86, xsave: xsave/xrstor support

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Message-ID: <488FAB2B.7050405@zytor.com>
Date:	Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:43:39 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch 0/9] x86, xsave: xsave/xrstor support

Suresh Siddha wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 04:09:12PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Applied as tip:x86/xsave.
>>
>> I should warn I had to do quite a bit of manual fixup in order to
>> disentangle it from other changes in -tip, so please test it out; I
>> compile-tested it but for obvious reasons can't do more than that at the
>> moment.
> 
> hpa, these patches just apply fine to tip/master. Can you please arrange
> the tip/x86/xsave tree accordingly? or do I need to do something else
> to smooth this process?

This is awkward, since that means this is "derived topic".  Most of the 
changes are orthogonal and relatively trivial to fix up at merge time, 
so I would prefer to keep them separate.

	-hpa
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