This is sensible. If too much detection stuff like this ends up in update-notifier, I suspect we can just create a new package called "cpu-checker", which is the bzr tree I've current got the check-bios-nx code and test suite in.
On another note, I would like to see kvm-ok improved somehow so that it is accurate after a system has been running for a while. Right now, if a system has been running a while and dmesg has scrolled off the top, or if the "kvm" module hasn't yet loaded, there's no feedback on if VT is disabled in the BIOS.
This is sensible. If too much detection stuff like this ends up in update-notifier, I suspect we can just create a new package called "cpu-checker", which is the bzr tree I've current got the check-bios-nx code and test suite in.
On another note, I would like to see kvm-ok improved somehow so that it is accurate after a system has been running for a while. Right now, if a system has been running a while and dmesg has scrolled off the top, or if the "kvm" module hasn't yet loaded, there's no feedback on if VT is disabled in the BIOS.