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| 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 |
| Message-ID | <pGvTP-4Hd-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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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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