From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932657AbXBSV33 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:29:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932706AbXBSV33 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:29:29 -0500 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:36773 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932657AbXBSV32 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:29:28 -0500 From: Andi Kleen Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) To: discuss@x86-64.org Subject: Re: [discuss] [PATCH 1/3] x86_64: additions to the i386 alternative extensions to support x86_64 architecture Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:29:22 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: "Joerg Roedel" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20070219190132.GA6083@amd.com> <20070219190709.GC6083@amd.com> In-Reply-To: <20070219190709.GC6083@amd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702192229.22217.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 19 February 2007 20:07, Joerg Roedel wrote: > From: Joerg Roedel > > This patch adds the necessary changes to extend the i386 alternative > instruction framework extension on the x86_64 architecture. Looks complicated and somewhat fragile. I think I would prefer it if you changed the pad field to a "bit not set" cpuid field. Then at least 2 alternatives + a nothing alternative could be described too. -Andi