From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Display Intel Dynamic Acceleration feature in /proc/cpuinfo
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:23:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46561E55.7090107@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <653FFBB4508B9042B5D43DC9E18836F5EE129C@scsmsx415.amr.corp.intel.com>
Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
>
> Yes. But it only has 3 features defined right now. 2 in EAX and one in
> ECX. Should I use 2 new words for these bits or just use the software
> defined bits as in my earlier patch?
>
Oh for heaven's sake. Could you please do the world a favour and shoot
your CPUID architect?
The real answer depends on how you expect it to grow in the future.
Intel has a piss-poor record at being consistent in this matter, which
speaks for a more ad hoc approach, but if there really is a sane growth
path going forward, then go ahead and define two new words.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-24 23:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-23 22:46 [PATCH] Display Intel Dynamic Acceleration feature in /proc/cpuinfo Venki Pallipadi
2007-05-24 20:55 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-24 21:01 ` Dave Jones
2007-05-24 21:08 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-24 21:13 ` Venki Pallipadi
2007-05-24 21:25 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-24 21:28 ` Venki Pallipadi
2007-05-24 21:37 ` Dave Jones
2007-05-24 21:56 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-24 23:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-24 23:13 ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2007-05-24 23:23 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-05-25 0:00 ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2007-05-25 0:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-30 0:52 ` Venki Pallipadi
2007-05-24 21:10 ` Venki Pallipadi
2007-05-24 22:02 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-24 22:08 ` Venki Pallipadi
2007-05-24 22:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-24 22:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-24 22:41 ` Dave Jones
2007-05-24 22:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-24 23:06 ` Dave Jones
2007-05-24 23:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-24 23:50 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-24 23:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-24 22:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
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