From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>,
discuss@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [discuss] [PATCH 1/2] x86_64: add reporting of SVM flags to /proc/cpuinfo
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 10:58:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070305155845.GA15991@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200703051625.31449.ak@suse.de>
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:25:31PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Monday 05 March 2007 15:39, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > From: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
> >
> > This patch adds the advanced SVM reporting to /proc/cpuinfo on the x86_64
> > architecture.
>
> Adding more fields to /proc/cpuinfo is always somewhat risky because
> there are lots of badly written parsers for it.
>
> I considered adding the SVM fields myself, but decided against it because
> it didn't seem generally useful enough.
Agreed. I'm more than happy to take patches to x86info however :)
Dave
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http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-05 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-05 14:36 [PATCH 0/2] add reporting of SVM flags to /proc/cpuinfo Joerg Roedel
2007-03-05 14:39 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86_64: " Joerg Roedel
2007-03-05 14:46 ` Michael Tokarev
2007-03-05 15:06 ` Joerg Roedel
2007-03-05 15:25 ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-05 15:58 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2007-03-06 12:46 ` Joerg Roedel
2007-03-05 14:42 ` [PATCH 2/2] i386: " Joerg Roedel
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