Standardizing CPUID data for the open-source x86 ecosystem

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Proposal standardizes CPUID by collecting and encoding the publicly known 830+ bitfields into an extensible XML schema and choosing XML over JSON/YAML for attribute-rich hierarchies. Generators produce C header and kcpuid generators that cover the full field set and small XSLT transforms create kernel-friendly structures. The repository targets downstreams Linux and Xen, documents vendor filtering and proc flags, and proves a working prototype that replaces scattered bitwise hacks with machine-readable, generated tables.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:57CPU ID instruction overview
3. 17:28Why standardize CPU ID data
4. 25:20Linux kernel challenges
5. 31:35Choosing XML for data model
6. 34:06XML schema and generators
7. 42:03Project and future steps