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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] docs: add guidance on configuring CPU models fo
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Markus Armbruster |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] docs: add guidance on configuring CPU models for x86 |
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Mon, 18 Jun 2018 08:03:32 +0200 |
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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.
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>> 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.
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>> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden>
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> Thank you very much.
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> 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.