Re: [patch 0/9] x86, xsave: xsave/xrstor support

[H. Peter Anvin]

Suresh Siddha wrote:

> > It somewhat concerns me, because one of the conflicts is generated by
> > collision with x2apic.  The rest of them I don't think are too problematic.
>
> hpa, confilicts with x2apic branch are very small and related to cpuid bits.
>
> commit 04df16d2465cbb59b84c9c57ad865dbbeebadad8
> Author: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Tue Jul 29 10:29:18 2008 -0700
>
>     x86, xsave: xsave cpuid feature bits
>
>     Add xsave CPU feature bits.
>     
> and 
>
> commit 32e1d0a0651004f5fe47f85a2a5c725ad579a90c
> Author: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Thu Jul 10 11:16:50 2008 -0700
>
>     x64, x2apic/intr-remap: cpuid bits for x2apic feature
>     
>     cpuid feature for x2apic.
>
> Both of these patches are straight forward, simple and can be moved
> to x86/core(?) now, if that helps.

This is true.  Cherry-picking those to the x86/core branch is probably 
the easiest, even if that means they're duplicated in the x2apic branch 
(I presume we don't want to rebase x2apic).

	-hpa
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