linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 4/6] x86/fpu: Fix "x86/fpu: Legacy x87 FPU detected" message

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Date:   Tue, 6 Dec 2016 19:04:27 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
        Matthew Whitehead <tedheadster@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 4/6] x86/fpu: Fix "x86/fpu: Legacy x87 FPU detected"
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On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 09:59:56AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> I did something like this for FSAVE vs FXSAVE.  XSAVE has its own pile
> of printouts and I don't feel like I need to add another.

So frankly, replacing "legacy" with "pre-XSAVE" is not making it any
clearer - it is just calling it differently. IMO.

Dumping those three makes it exact.

But I don't care too much about it - it is in /proc/cpuinfo anyway.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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