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Message-ID: <48B629D2.7040809@zytor.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:30:10 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
Austin Zhang <austin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>
CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Cleanup and updates of x86 CPU definitions
Hi all,
I have just committed to tip:x86/cpu the following patch series:
H. Peter Anvin (3):
x86: generate names for /proc/cpuinfo from <asm/cpufeature.h>
x86: cpufeature: add Intel features from CPUID and AVX specs
x86: <asm/cpufeature.h>: clean up overlong lines, whitespace
The combined patch is below.
This changes the CPU feature naming code so that all that information
comes from <asm-x86/cpufeature.h>. In the past we have had a number of
problems with cpufeature.h diverging from what /proc/cpuinfo showed (not
to mention that at one point we would show different things for 32 and
64 bits.)
I'm flagging this especially, since this is a patch fairly likely to
conflict with other changes (incluing in other trees), although
hopefully in a trivial fashion (this patchset should supercede) since I
have gone through all the Intel and AMD documentation I could find and
made sure it has the flags.
It is definitely unfortunate how the kernel sources and /proc/cpuinfo
use different names for features; given that we can't change
/proc/cpuinfo it might be worthwhile to run a sed script over the kernel
sources.
-hpa
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