On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 11:56:49 +0200 David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> For now this series covers just AMD SEV and POWER PEF. I'm hoping it > >>> can be extended to cover the Intel and s390 mechanisms as well, > >>> though. > >> > >> The only approach on s390x to not glue command line properties to the > >> cpu model would be to remove the CPU model feature and replace it by the > >> command line parameter. But that would, of course, be an incompatible break. > > > > Yuck. > > > > We still need to provide the cpu feature to the *guest* in any case, no? > > Yeah, but that could be wired up internally. Wouldn't consider it clean, > though (I second the "overengineered" above). Could an internally wired-up cpu feature be introspected? Also, what happens if new cpu features are introduced that have a dependency on or a conflict with this one?
