Re: [PATCH v11 3/4] x86/cpu: Do a sanity check on required feature bits

From: Borislav Petkov

Date: Mon Mar 23 2026 - 17:57:14 EST


On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 10:50:49PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Because this CPU sounds to me like an all-bets-are-off thing.

AFAICT, if you cannot enable PAE, we can't enable long mode, right?

If so, this use case is for some 32-bit only broken gunk.

Why do we care?

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