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On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 01:18:09PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> AMD and Hygon pretend that they are different, and use different families
> for what is effectively the same processor, and that's silly.

Not entirely true. Off and on they come with enablement which is close
but then a bit different and it is either ifdeffery or do their own
functions.  For simplicity, we've done "do their own functions" as we
cannot test the common code on Hygon.

> ... because honestly who even thinks of Hygon...

There's that too.

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    Boris.

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