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

[Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com>]

On 9/26/2024 6:12 AM, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote:

> 
> The <linux> tag means that this bit is also represented inside the Linux
> Kernel x86 tree in various means.
> 

Got it. But this would mean that the entry needs to be submitted after
the linux usage is established.

> For now, the goal was to cover all known names for
> the cpuid feature bits, especially when they differ; i.e. canonical name
> vs. Linux X86_FEATURE name vs. Linux /proc/cpuinfo name.
> 

Also, the various cpuid bit usages in the kernel might happen in stages.

Are you planning to have scripts that automatically pull this data from
the kernel as and when these usages get merged? I believe asking
developers to submit multiple edits to the cpuid-db might be
inconvenient and error prone.

> Thanks for the question! I'll indeed need to document that part of the
> schema before the v2.0 release.
> 

Thanks! That would be very useful as more folks start contributing to
the project.

-Sohil