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I've heard back from AMD.... At least this PR person is saying: . “Disabling branch prediction” is definitely not an accurate description and we are working to

• seriouslydoode 9y ago
  Here's the openSUSE/kernel-source/commit in question: https://github.com/openSUSE/kernel-source/commit/14b04164b2ff91035a9a8f4672f4d86b929697ce https://github.com/openSUSE/kernel-source/commit/14b04164b2f... Search for amd.com for AMD related changes.
  • taspeotis 9y ago
    114 changed files with 12,403 additions and 23 deletions. That's a pretty big patch (although some of those lines are .patch file pre- and post-amble). I feel bad for the people that had to develop/qa/signoff all of that in such a short timeframe. There's got to be at least one mistake in there somewhere.
    • azernik 9y ago
      Almost all of this commit is .patch files. Going through them, it seems to be about 10 from AMD, a few from IBM (for S390 processors), a bunch from Intel, and a few from kernel core maintainers. It's a giant workload, but seems to have been distributed pretty widely.
  • oneweekwonder 9y ago
    Am I seeing this right. They called the entry points paranoid* as in "unreasonably or obsessively anxious, suspicious, or mistrustful"? Funny,