Re: [PATCH v5 0/5] x86/cpufeatures: Automatically generate required and disabled feature masks

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 09:10:01AM -0800, Xin Li wrote:
> After looking into the build issue, we think it's better to change to perl;
> GNU awk has quite a few extended features that standard awk doesn't support,
> e.g., BEGINFILE/FPAT/...

... which will make the kernel build depend on yet another tool. I know,
I know, perl is everywhere but someone would crawl out of the woodwork
complaining that building the kernel pulls in even more stuff.

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