F Florian Weimer #
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* Dave Hansen:
That's kinda my whole point. These *MUST* be curated to be meaningful. Right now, someone just dumped a set of CPUID bits into the documentation. The interface really needs *three* modes: 1. Yes, the CPU/OS supports this feature 2. No, the CPU/OS doesn't support this feature 3. Hell if I know, never heard of this feature The interface really conflates 2 and 3. To me, that makes it fundamentally flawed.
That's an interesing point. 3 looks potentially more useful than the feature/usable distinction to me. The recent RTM change suggests that there are more states, but we probably can't do much about such soft-disable changes. Thanks, Florian