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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-purgate-ID: tlsNG-c1860d/1787302282-D574B87B-A9C1E3F1/0/0 X-purgate-type: clean X-purgate-size: 821 On 20.08.2026 19:26, Andrew Cooper wrote: > Rework detect_zen2_null_seg_behaviour() to use the new MSR infrastructure. > > Zen2 doesn't have WRMSRNS so don't bother relaxing the write. All it will do > is insert a useless alternative. > > No functional change. > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich > Naming Zen2/3 in init_hygon() isn't ideal, but the early hygons really were > not far removed from the AMD microarchitectures. I wonder what we should do about Hygon. Just recently I saw patches going into somewhere (gcc?) to support recent hardware. We haven't seen any contributions in many years to keep our support up-to-date. We may want/need to consider removing support if that code is effectively unmaintained. Jan