Article 6F889 Linux Will Finally Indicate Via /proc/cpuinfo If AMD SVM Virtualization Is Disabled

Linux Will Finally Indicate Via /proc/cpuinfo If AMD SVM Virtualization Is Disabled

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Checking for the presence of Intel virtualization (VMX) support and it being enabled can be easily achieved by looking at the flags in /proc/cpuinfo. But to this point AMD virtualization (SVM) has always been shown to user-space via /proc/cpuinfo even when the BIOS/platform has disabled SVM functionality. Finally for Linux 6.7 this oversight is being corrected...
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