Re: [PATCH] x86/its: use Sapphire Rapids+ feature to opt out

From: Pawan Gupta

Date: Mon Oct 20 2025 - 15:26:14 EST


On Mon, Oct 20, 2025 at 09:21:41AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 10/20/25 09:05, Jon Kohler wrote:
> > Was running into some testing issues with my qemu change internally,
> > but I’ll get that out this week once I clear them.
>
> BTW, if there are folks out there that are working on things like QEMU
> and want more formal or regular notification from vendors that a FOO_NO
> bit has been added, that can probably be arranged.
>
> The real issue here is that nobody cared enough to get QEMU to
> comprehend ITS_NO right after the embargo was lifted, right?

ITS_NO support was added to QEMU right after the embargo was lifted:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/8c1797e488b42650f62d816f25c58726eb522fad.1745946029.git.pawan.kumar.gupta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/