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.