From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 13:09:41 -0800 Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/4] wire up CPU features to udev based module loading In-Reply-To: <1383844657-17487-1-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> References: <1383844657-17487-1-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Message-ID: <527C0195.50008@zytor.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 11/07/2013 09:17 AM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > This series implements automatic module loading based on optional CPU features, > and tries to do so in a generic way. Currently, 32 feature bits are supported, > and how they map to actual CPU features is entirely up to the architecture. NAK. We in the x86 world already left 32 bits way behind; we currently have 320 bit feature masks. If you're aiming at doing this in a generic way, it needs to be able to accommodate the current x86cpu feature stuff as a subset, which this doesn't. -hpa