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Subject: RE: [PATCH] Add VT flag to cpuinfo
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:08:28 -0800
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From: "Dugger, Donald D" <donald.d.dugger@intel.com>
To: "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "Shah, Rajesh" <rajesh.shah@intel.com>,
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Andi-

As I said, we discussed this internally and the concensus was that
`vmx' was correct.  Especially since this term is used in the
documentation this should be safe.

--
Don Dugger
"Censeo Toto nos in Kansa esse decisse." - D. Gale
Donald.D.Dugger@intel.com
Ph: (303)440-1368 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Andi Kleen [mailto:ak@suse.de] 
>Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 4:50 PM
>To: Dugger, Donald D
>Cc: Andi Kleen; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Shah, Rajesh; 
>akpm@osdl.org
>Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add VT flag to cpuinfo
>
>On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 03:46:09PM -0800, Dugger, Donald D wrote:
>> Andi-
>> 
>> Story of my life (I've had way too many patches that I
>> sent out just a little too late :-)
>
>It might be useful if you could confirm "vmx" is the really
>official name that will continue to be used to describe that feature
>in the future.  We're already stuck with PNI instead of SSE3 and no
>need to make that mistake problem. If VT matches the long term 
>naming better
>it would be a good idea to still rename it.
>
>-Andi
>
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