RE: [PATCH v8 00/33] x86: enable FRED for x86-64

[Li, Xin3]

> > Is FRED in any hardware incarnation to rush it?
> 
> Which reminds me...  It is always appreciated when hardware vendors can put a
> stake in the ground about where and how a feature will show up.
> It's great that you said that it is SIMICS-only for now.  That's a start.
> 
> But, if you could, for instance say things like (and I'm totally pulling these out of
> my rear end):
> 
> 	FRED will be available only on server CPUs or
> 	FRED will be available across all Intel CPUs or
> 	FRED will start showing up in CPUs that are released
> 	in roughly 2033
> 
> it would be nice to know that.
> 
> Here's what I said for protection keys, for example:
> 
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20160212210152.9CAD15B0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Good point, I will find out what I could provide in LKML and update later.

Thanks!
  Xin