RE: [PATCH] Add VT flag to cpuinfo

From: Dugger, Donald D
Date: Wed Nov 30 2005 - 19:09:13 EST


Andi-

As I said, we discussed this internally and the concensus was that
`vmx' was correct. Especially since this term is used in the
documentation this should be safe.

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Don Dugger
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Andi Kleen [mailto:ak@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 4:50 PM
>To: Dugger, Donald D
>Cc: Andi Kleen; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Shah, Rajesh;
>akpm@xxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add VT flag to cpuinfo
>
>On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 03:46:09PM -0800, Dugger, Donald D wrote:
>> Andi-
>>
>> Story of my life (I've had way too many patches that I
>> sent out just a little too late :-)
>
>It might be useful if you could confirm "vmx" is the really
>official name that will continue to be used to describe that feature
>in the future. We're already stuck with PNI instead of SSE3 and no
>need to make that mistake problem. If VT matches the long term
>naming better
>it would be a good idea to still rename it.
>
>-Andi
>
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