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[PATCH] gnu: cpuid: Update to 20200211.

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From: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll <at> gmail.com>
To: Todd Allen <todd <at> etallen.com>
Cc: guix-patches <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: cpuid: Update to 20200211.
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 20:14:23 +0100

Hello Todd

thanks to chime in.

On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 4:12 PM Todd Allen <todd <at> etallen.com> wrote:

> Yes, often cpuid changes because of new features in the CPUID instruction, or
> because of new CPUs determinable by the (synth) and (uarch synth) "leaves".
> Sometimes it's because there was a feature I didn't know existed, like 0x2000000
> leaves for Itanium.  The ":" change to "=" in a couple cases was deliberate.  It
> had been inconsistent before.

Thanks also for the details, I was just not expecting that much
changes initially when
doing a refresh only a few weeks after the preceding one. That means you're doig
lots of work, which is great !

And to Tobias, yes, I was erring on the (too much) safe side, not
really being sure
what I'm doing... I'm still fairly new to guix, even if I lurked in
the vicinity for a long
time. Looks like I'm digging a bit deeper this time (bare-metal
install on an old laptop
in addition to the VM I did my previous attempts with...) And while
trying to be useful,
I don't want to disrupt or make others loose time on my early mistakes...

Thanks all for the help, I'll go package something else now...

-- 
Vincent Legoll

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