Re: [PATCH v6 00/90] x86: Introduce a centralized CPUID data model

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2026 at 08:55:07AM +0000, Maciej Wieczor-Retman wrote:
> Hi, very cool rework! So far I didn't notice any problems while testing.
> 
> Buy anyway I wanted to ask if you thought about including the cpuid_deps[] or
> cpuid_dependent_features[] into the new cpuid API ecosystem?
> 
> Or if not (since this patchset is quite long already :b ), then do you have
> any idea where best it could fit in? During discussion on [1] you mentioned the
> feature depenedency should be encoded in x86-cpuid-db. I assume you meant it
> would need to be first patched into there, then parsed by Kconfig?

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