On 26/02/2025 2:33 pm, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 26.02.2025 15:31, Oleksii Kurochko wrote: >> On 2/26/25 2:13 PM, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>>>> + - Zen5 support (including new hardware support to mitigate the SRSO >>>>>> + speculative vulnerability). >>>>> I'd also suggest to qualify Zen5 with AMD. >>>> I thought that it is clear just from the name for a CPU microachitecture: >>>> Zen5 which >>>> I expect to be develop by AMD. Anyway, if it is really better I will add >>>> AMD before Zen5. >>>> >>>>> Whether to mention this here >>>>> when I think I backported all the pieces isn't entirely clear to me >>>>> either. >>>> What is the better place then? >>> The question isn't where to put it, but whether to in the first place. >> Wouldn't it be useful to highlight that Xen now supports the new security >> feature >> for mitigating SRSO vulnerabilities on AMD Zen5? > I don't know. Thing is what we list here is supposedly new in 4.20. Yet > here we're talking about something that was already backported to older > versions. I'll admit though I didn't check how much of that made it into > any stable release.
This was my suggested wording. Yes we've backported it, but it was also new feature work done during the 4.20 window. ~Andrew
