Re: [PATCH PATCH 1/9] x86/cpu/topology: Add x86_cpu_type to struct cpuinfo_topology

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Jun 20 2024 - 11:52:04 EST


On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 08:31:26PM -0700, Pawan Gupta wrote:
> To accommodate for that we can name the vendor specific types in this
> series as vendor_cpu_type. And if we ever need to add generic types, we can
> call them cpu_type?

Yes, then that member you're adding should not just be called "cpu_type" but
either "vendor_cpu_type" or "hw_cpu_type" or whatnot and every vendor can then
put its own values there.

And for the future we could do functions which convert from a vendor CPU type
to a generic one. If we ever decide that we need the generic ones.

Thx.

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