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

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 10:10:03AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Yeah we had that debate back and forth. Although I personally feel that any
> sensible build host would have or be able to have Perl, the consensus
> opinion seems to be that if it can be done with POSIX standard tools or
> host-side C it should be unless there is a very strong justification to the
> contrary. 

Right, Xin, please make sure you put this rationale in the commit message so
that people can read it.

> I guess at some point that will add host-side Rust, which will be fun since
> that adds the whole Rust user space runtime.

There's that too. And that'll be even more fun. I can't wait for the
compiler-specific workarounds. We're having a lot of fun with two C compilers
already but who says we can't have more?!

/facepalm.

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    Boris.

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