Re: Fail to early boot with v2.6.27-rc2 to at least v2.6.29-rc2 due to dc1e35c

From: Suresh Siddha
Date: Thu Jan 22 2009 - 17:56:37 EST


On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 02:40:56PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Suresh Siddha wrote:
> > Ok. Here is the patch for this aswell. Thanks.
>
> I wonder if it wouldn't be better to do this in the CPUID code rather
> than in the xsave code...

We can do this in the cpuid code aswell, but the dependency information
varies from feature to feature and there are no architectural methods here.
So I think its better to keep it near the code enabling that feaure.

thanks,
suresh
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