Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Most of the reason I was wondering is that the cpu hardware probing > largely seems to be a duplicate of what we have in the core for > probing cpu capabilities already, and could likely be made smaller > by building upon the existing codebase. > > We use the core cpuid functions, or are you referring to something else? >> svm can writeback into memory at odd times if we don't do this, and the cost is >> small - clear a bit in EFER. There's no reason to be lazy. >> > > Especially if we can clear that bit unconditionally (when > EFER is present) I'm all for it. > That is the case. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function