Re: [PATCH] target-i386: add Intel AVX-512 support

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On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 12:31:42PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> On 02/11/2014 11:19, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > Add AVX512 feature bits, register definition and corresponding
> > > xsave/vmstate support.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > As this was first posted after soft freeze, please
> > resubmit after 2.2 is out.
> > 
> > See schedule http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/2.2
> 
> Actually this is already in.
> 
> While "Planning/2.2" says "all features should have patches posted on
> the mailing list", the actual page describing soft feature freeze is
> more lenient:
> 
>    By the date of the soft feature freeze, any non-trivial feature
>    should have some code posted to the qemu-devel mailing list if it's
>    targeting a given release. Major features, and in particular
>    features with a high likelihood of breaking things, should already
>    be in the process of being merged.
> 
> This patch was fairly trivial, as it only adds a few memcpys and a
> subsection.  Likelihood of breaking things is basically zero because
> AVX512 does not yet exist in silicon.  Eduardo reviewed the patch
> promptly and agreed with putting it in 2.2, so that's what I did.
> 
> Paolo

Oh that's fine.
I was not trying to argue, I didn't notice it was in
and thought I'm asked to merge it.
It's always a judgement call, I trust you did the right thing.

Thanks and sorry about the noise.

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