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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 10:18:59 +0200
From: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] docs: add guidance on configuring CPU
 models for x86
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To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 08:03:32AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> writes:
>=20
> > 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 o=
f
> >> the named CPU models are good choices, and describes which extra CPU
> >> flags should be enabled to allow the guest to mitigate hardware flaw=
s.
> >>=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".
>=20
> Same way as the other contents there.
>=20
> > (I'm not willing to rewrite this using texinfo to make that
> > happen.)
>=20
> Texinfo is simple.
>=20
> If all else fails, ask for my help after soft freeze.

If someone already hasn't done it, I can help rewrite it.  (It'll let me
try out 'Texinfo' in real and I have to deal with CPU modelling aspects
elsewhere in the higher-level tools. :-))

--=20
/kashyap