On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 8:08 PM, Mart Raudsepp <l...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Also, how are they exposed in cpuinfo, do we have first patches
> for cpuid2cpuflags?

cpuid2cpuflags does not use /proc/cpuinfo since version 2.

A patch adding detection for the various avx512 extensions has been
merged upstream.

https://github.com/mgorny/cpuid2cpuflags/commit/8b020e51773c912cca3d6983bd883a6ff08ad637

> tl;dr: Concerned about prematurely adding things without knowing of consumer 
> examples

I agree that there is no point in adding the values to
cpu_flags_x86.desc until there are some ebuild ready to utilize them.

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