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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] docs: add guidance on configuring CPU
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To: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: "Daniel P. =?utf-8?Q?Berrang=C3=A9?=" <berrange@redhat.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>

Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> writes:

> On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 03:16:09PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrang=C3=A9 wrote:
>> With the recent set of CPU hardware vulnerabilities on x86, it is
>> increasingly difficult to understand which CPU configurations are
>> good to use and what flaws they might be vulnerable to.
>>=20
>> This doc attempts to help management applications and administrators in
>> picking sensible CPU configuration on x86 hosts. It outlines which of
>> the named CPU models are good choices, and describes which extra CPU
>> flags should be enabled to allow the guest to mitigate hardware flaws.
>>=20
>> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrang=C3=A9 <berrange@redhat.com>
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> I wonder how we could reference this from the man page and
> qemu-doc.html without saying "look at the QEMU source tree".

Same way as the other contents there.

> (I'm not willing to rewrite this using texinfo to make that
> happen.)

Texinfo is simple.

If all else fails, ask for my help after soft freeze.