From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752322AbXCEP7h (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Mar 2007 10:59:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933570AbXCEP7g (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Mar 2007 10:59:36 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:39239 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751954AbXCEP7T (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Mar 2007 10:59:19 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 10:58:45 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: Andi Kleen Cc: Joerg Roedel , 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 Message-ID: <20070305155845.GA15991@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Andi Kleen , Joerg Roedel , discuss@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20070305143601.GF30318@amd.com> <20070305143911.GG30318@amd.com> <200703051625.31449.ak@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200703051625.31449.ak@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > > > > 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 -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk