Il 17/09/2014 16:06, Borislav Petkov ha scritto: >> > AFAIK backward compatibility is usually maintained in x86. I did not >> > see in Intel SDM anything that says "this CPUID field means something >> > for CPU X and something else for CPU Y". Anyhow, it is not different >> > than bitmasks in this respect. > You still don't get my point: what are you going to do when > min_monitor_line_size needs to be 17 bits all of a sudden? The extra bit used to be reserved and thus will be zero on older families. So, nothing? Paolo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
