Re: [PATCH v7 004/120] x86/cpuid: Introduce <asm/cpuid/leaf_types.h>

[Ahmed S. Darwish]

On Mon, 08 Jun 2026, Christian Ludloff wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2026, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> >
> > I think with issues like that which can cause nasty workarounds, we
> > cannot be urgent enough in fixing them.
> >
>
> The database will never be perfect – it is always in catch-up mode
> in terms of leaves/fields/values that need to be fixed and/or added.
>
> That much I can tell you with absolute certainty after more than 30
> years of https://www.sandpile.org/x86/cpuid.htm maintenance, and
> yes, being personally responsible for some of the CPUID madness.
>
> Embrace that chase of completeness and correctness – "perfect is
> the enemy of good".

Amen to that :)

> Ahmed, can you enable gitlab issue tracking?

Yup, I've enabled it now.

Thanks,
Ahmed