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| From | Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [patch 1/2] x86/platform/goldfish: Prevent unconditional loading |
| Date | 2017-02-15 13:20 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <tb6IV-8jM-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <tb50t-78r-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <tb50t-78r-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <tb5tv-7iH-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <tb5tv-7iH-3@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | Intel Corporation |
> > > I'm seriously grumpy about this engineering trainwreck, which has > > > seven > > > SOBs from Intel developers for 50 lines of code. And none of them > > > figured > > > out that this is broken. Impressive fail! It was discussed at the time, documented at the time. Unfortunately the people who did the emulator didn't feel the urge to provide a way to detect the platform was Goldfish. Historically it also used its own custom device discovery scheme. Given the limited use of older versions of Goldfish it might well make sense to remove support for the older emulator versions. Alan
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[patch 1/2] x86/platform/goldfish: Prevent unconditional loading Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-02-15 11:30 +0100
Re: [patch 1/2] x86/platform/goldfish: Prevent unconditional loading Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-02-15 12:00 +0100
Re: [patch 1/2] x86/platform/goldfish: Prevent unconditional loading Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> - 2017-02-15 13:20 +0100
Re: [patch 1/2] x86/platform/goldfish: Prevent unconditional loading Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-02-15 16:00 +0100
Re: [patch 1/2] x86/platform/goldfish: Prevent unconditional loading Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-02-15 12:00 +0100
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