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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] docs: add guidance on configuring CPU models fo
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Kashyap Chamarthy |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] docs: add guidance on configuring CPU models for x86 |
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Mon, 25 Jun 2018 10:18:59 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.9.2 (2017-12-15) |
On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 08:03:32AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 03:16:09PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> >> With the recent set of CPU hardware vulnerabilities on x86, it is
> >> increasingly difficult to understand which CPU configurations are
> >> good to use and what flaws they might be vulnerable to.
> >>
> >> This doc attempts to help management applications and administrators in
> >> picking sensible CPU configuration on x86 hosts. It outlines which of
> >> the named CPU models are good choices, and describes which extra CPU
> >> flags should be enabled to allow the guest to mitigate hardware flaws.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden>
> >
> > Thank you very much.
> >
> > I wonder how we could reference this from the man page and
> > qemu-doc.html without saying "look at the QEMU source tree".
>
> Same way as the other contents there.
>
> > (I'm not willing to rewrite this using texinfo to make that
> > happen.)
>
> Texinfo is simple.
>
> If all else fails, ask for my help after soft freeze.
If someone already hasn't done it, I can help rewrite it. (It'll let me
try out 'Texinfo' in real and I have to deal with CPU modelling aspects
elsewhere in the higher-level tools. :-))
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/kashyap