Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: handle Intel CPUs falsely reporting as GenuineIotel

[Borislav Petkov]

On Sat, Jul 04, 2026 at 03:23:36PM -0400, Evalyn Goemer wrote:
> Do let me know if there is a more proper place for this kind of check but I 
> would be glad to make a patch to handle this in such a way since yeah such 
> CPUs could have some other worse issues.

I'd think arch/x86/kernel/verify_cpu.S, maybe, where we check "GenuineIntel".

> What do you think x86.cpu_vendor=<string> should do? My mind is coming up 
> blank on this. If this is for emulating specific vendor strings it could be 
> done at the hypervisor level for testing.

Right. No need to burden the kernel with this.

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