Re: [patch 3/3] add Via Nehemiah ("xstore") rng support

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Dave Jones wrote:
>  
>  > +#define cpu_has_xstore		boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XSTORE)
>  
> Do we want to do this check only on VIA CPUs I wonder.
> As a vendor specific extension, I'd be inclined to do that.

No, the whole point of all the crud in arch/i386/kernel/cpu is to make 
those tests _once_ at bootup, and then the internal kernel "extended CPU 
feature set" has a unique feature-set that is independent of manufacturers 
and totally disjunct, so that we never need to care about manufacturers 
ever again.

		Linus