Re: [PATCH 4/6] x86/cpu: Add platform ID to CPU info structure

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 10:40:21AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> I'm racking my brain but having a hard time coming up with a good name
> that would work for unknown future AMD things. ;)
> 
> Any suggestions? I'm not married to the name in any way.
> I could prefix it with 'intel_' to make it more clear that someone _can_
> do a union in the future, like we do with "Hardware defined CPU-type".
> 
> Or we could do:
> 
> 	union {
> 		u8 intel_platform_id;
> 		u8 amd_unused;
> 	};
> 
> to make it utterly clear that it's free for use on AMD if someone goes
> looking for AMD-usable space.

That last one LGTM.

And if we need to change it later, we always can - the thing is there to
remind that we have a u8 ready to use.

Thx.

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    Boris.

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