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From: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] docs: add guidance on configuring CPU
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To: Daniel =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=2E_Berrang=E9?= <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>

On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 03:16:09PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrang=E9 wrote:
> With the recent set of CPU hardware vulnerabilities on x86, it is
> increasingly difficult to understand which CPU configurations are
> good to use and what flaws they might be vulnerable to.
>=20
> This doc attempts to help management applications and administrators in
> picking sensible CPU configuration on x86 hosts. It outlines which of
> the named CPU models are good choices, and describes which extra CPU
> flags should be enabled to allow the guest to mitigate hardware flaws.
>=20
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrang=E9 <berrange@redhat.com>

Thank you very much.

I wonder how we could reference this from the man page and
qemu-doc.html without saying "look at the QEMU source tree".

(I'm not willing to rewrite this using texinfo to make that
happen.)


--=20
Eduardo