Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] wire up CPU features to udev based module loading

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 11/07/2013 09:17 AM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> This series implements automatic module loading based on optional CPU features,
> and tries to do so in a generic way. Currently, 32 feature bits are supported,
> and how they map to actual CPU features is entirely up to the architecture.

NAK.

We in the x86 world already left 32 bits way behind; we currently have
320 bit feature masks.

If you're aiming at doing this in a generic way, it needs to be able to
accommodate the current x86cpu feature stuff as a subset, which this
doesn't.

	-hpa

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