Re: [discuss] [PATCH 1/2] x86_64: add reporting of SVM flags to /proc/cpuinfo

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:25:31PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
 > On Monday 05 March 2007 15:39, Joerg Roedel wrote:
 > > From: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx>
 > > 
 > > This patch adds the advanced SVM reporting to /proc/cpuinfo on the x86_64
 > > architecture.
 > 
 > Adding more fields to /proc/cpuinfo is always somewhat risky because
 > there are lots of badly written parsers for it.
 > 
 > I considered adding the SVM fields myself, but decided against it because
 > it didn't seem generally useful enough.

Agreed.  I'm more than happy to take patches to x86info however :)

		Dave

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