> > Is FRED in any hardware incarnation to rush it? > > Which reminds me... It is always appreciated when hardware vendors can put a > stake in the ground about where and how a feature will show up. > It's great that you said that it is SIMICS-only for now. That's a start. > > But, if you could, for instance say things like (and I'm totally pulling these out of > my rear end): > > FRED will be available only on server CPUs or > FRED will be available across all Intel CPUs or > FRED will start showing up in CPUs that are released > in roughly 2033 > > it would be nice to know that. > > Here's what I said for protection keys, for example: > > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20160212210152.9CAD15B0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Good point, I will find out what I could provide in LKML and update later. Thanks! Xin
