Re: [PATCH] db: Add Intel NMI-source reporting feature flag

["Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwi@linutronix.de>]

On Thu, 26 Sep 2024, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>
> I guess I need to start getting back to this...
>
> The Xen 'attrs' need stripping. More specifically, they need to live in
> Xen itself, because they are different by release, and are used in the
> derivation of what is safe to offer to guests.
>
> But the same is true for 'feature' too.  It's one think to know what the
> bit means, but it's something else to be making a statement about what
> is supported in an external project.
>
> When this is used in earnest, regenerating the headers will be needed in
> each stable tree to get e.g. the new speculation (anti)features, and
> doing so needs to not change the other features="true" for bits only
> supported in newer branches.
>

Yeah, correct.

I still remember our discussion on how the <xen> tag (and its
attributes) were not fitting Xen's model.  So, for now, it's indeed a
placeholder until work starts earnestly on that part.

Thanks,
Ahmed

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