linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 01/15] x86/cpu: Move intel-family to arch-independent headers

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Date:   Wed, 13 Oct 2021 08:42:06 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     "Winiarska, Iwona" <iwona.winiarska@...el.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/15] x86/cpu: Move intel-family to arch-independent
 headers

On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 11:15:00PM +0000, Winiarska, Iwona wrote:
> We (OpenBMC) do have PECI HW, so that shouldn't be a problem.

Yeah, don't take it personally, but asking people to test stuff for you
doesn't really work, in practice.

> Both CPUID.EAX=1 decoding and definitions in intel-family are pretty "well-
> defined".

Sure, they are "well-defined" until we change them for whatever reason.
Then they will be "well-defined" again. But different.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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