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RE: Linux patch disabling AVX when eagerfpu is turned off - possibly not required

From "Leonid Shatz" <leonid.shatz@ravellosystems.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject RE: Linux patch disabling AVX when eagerfpu is turned off - possibly not required
Date 2016-01-21 22:20 +0100
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On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 01:08:18PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 01/21/16 13:03, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
>> > Hello Leonid,
>> > 
>> > You are probably right. Let me check this and get back to you.
>> > 
>> > Thanks,
>> > Yu-cheng
>> > 
>> 
>> The hardware people have gotten back to us and this inconsistency in 
>> the SDM is unintentional (other places in the SDM has it correctly.)  
>> So we should revert this patch.
>> 
>> 	-hpa
>> 
>Agree. Thanks Peter and Leonid!

Thank you all for your feedback and clarifications. That's was my assumption
that SDM was somewhat misleading, but I was not %100 sure about it. It could
be nice, though to see future releases of SDM taking this issue in account.

Leonid

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Linux patch disabling AVX when eagerfpu is turned off - possibly not required "Leonid Shatz" <leonid.shatz@ravellosystems.com> - 2016-01-21 11:40 +0100
  Re: Linux patch disabling AVX when eagerfpu is turned off - possibly  not required Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> - 2016-01-21 21:10 +0100
    Re: Linux patch disabling AVX when eagerfpu is turned off - possibly  not required "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-01-21 21:20 +0100
      Re: Linux patch disabling AVX when eagerfpu is turned off - possibly  not required Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-01-21 22:10 +0100
  Re: Linux patch disabling AVX when eagerfpu is turned off - possibly  not required Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-01-21 22:10 +0100
    Re: Linux patch disabling AVX when eagerfpu is turned off - possibly  not required "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-01-21 22:10 +0100
      Re: Linux patch disabling AVX when eagerfpu is turned off - possibly  not required Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> - 2016-01-21 22:20 +0100
        RE: Linux patch disabling AVX when eagerfpu is turned off - possibly not required "Leonid Shatz" <leonid.shatz@ravellosystems.com> - 2016-01-21 22:20 +0100
          Re: Linux patch disabling AVX when eagerfpu is turned off - possibly  not required "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-01-21 22:30 +0100

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