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

[Xin Li]

On 2/25/2025 10:15 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 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.

Oh, I'm thinking to stick to awk with rewriting the part that a standard
POSIX awk doesn't support...