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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the crypto tree
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:47:26 -0700
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To: "Zhang, Austin" <austin.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Zhang, Austin wrote:
>>> new x86 feature bits should definitely show up in the x86 tree too
> So can we add sse4.1 into this patch also as: 
> #define X86_FEATURE_XMM4_1	(4*32+19)
> even though now no obvious user is asking it in kernel. 

The best would be to:

1. rename all the feature bits which have inconsistent names in their
    #defines and in /proc/cpuinfo;
2. generate the /proc/cpuinfo table
    (arch/x86/kernel/cpu/feature_names.c) automatically from
    cpufeature.h.

2. is quite trivial, and 1. can be done largely automatically.  I will 
experiment with this.

	-hpa