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Re: [all better] Re: regression: massive trouble with fpu rework

From Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [all better] Re: regression: massive trouble with fpu rework
Date 2015-06-29 03:20 +0200
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On Sun, 28 Jun 2015, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-06-28 at 12:06 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > It is just that this kind of breakage should not be subtle if we can help
> > it, because people will use a crippled system for years without noticing...
> 
> If you can use it without noticing for years, it ain't crippled, or?  My
> point being that severity seems more akin to the box having a zit behind
> its left ear, in which case lobotomizing it seems a tad extreme.

Noted.  However if it does boot with cpuid limited (and we don't "unlimit"
it somehow) on a recent processor, at *best* the user paid good money for a
lot of stuff that is going to not be used to enhance system performance and
system security.

It is not nice to the user to just limp along silently about this.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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[all better] Re: regression: massive trouble with fpu rework Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> - 2015-06-27 10:20 +0200
  Re: [all better] Re: regression: massive trouble with fpu rework Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-06-27 10:30 +0200
    Re: [all better] Re: regression: massive trouble with fpu rework Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> - 2015-06-27 11:00 +0200
      Re: [all better] Re: regression: massive trouble with fpu rework Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> - 2015-06-27 23:10 +0200
        Re: [all better] Re: regression: massive trouble with fpu rework Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> - 2015-06-29 03:20 +0200
      Re: [all better] Re: regression: massive trouble with fpu rework "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2015-06-30 22:30 +0200

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