"Doctor, it hurts when I do this" "Then don't do that" same applies to new software applied to antiques.
On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 1:48 PM Matt B <[email protected]> wrote: > > My concern is more about surprise brokenness when trying to use the newest > version, if any of those pentiums remain. > > On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 4:06 PM ron minnich <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> That's what versions are all about. It seems sensible to me to leave >> the old bad stuff behind; if people need it, it's all still there if >> they know the tag. >> >> On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 1:02 PM Matt B <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > I should note I'm not 100% sure what they're doing there. >> > >> > Are there any more of these buggy pentiums left in the coreboot tree? (If >> > he chooses to update) I can imagine RMS getting real snippy if we break >> > his thinkpad. :P >> > >> > On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 3:53 PM ron minnich <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> nice fine. Might be worth adding the text of this comment (modified as >> >> needed) to the CL so that in years to come people understand the >> >> reasons. >> >> >> >> On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 12:51 PM Matt B <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > >> >> > A quick google turned this up: >> >> > https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/kernel/+/chromeos-3.0/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c#253 >> >> > >> >> > On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 4:06 AM Julian Stecklina >> >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, 2021-10-05 at 09:29 +0300, Kyösti Mälkki wrote: >> >> >> > On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 8:12 PM Julian Stecklina >> >> >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> > > >> >> >> > > But it looks like the workaround was just carried forward with no >> >> >> > > discussion >> >> >> > > of >> >> >> > > whether it's still necessary or what it actually works around. >> >> >> > > >> >> >> > >> >> >> > Hi >> >> >> > >> >> >> > Removal has been suggested with the X2APIC work: >> >> >> > >> >> >> > https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/55199 >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> I've been looking at 4.13 instead of master. My bad. In master, indeed >> >> >> most >> >> >> atomic accesses are gone and the ones writing to ICR are left. This >> >> >> mostly makes >> >> >> sense and is much clearer now. :) >> >> >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> Julian >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> >> coreboot mailing list -- [email protected] >> >> >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> >> > >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> >> > coreboot mailing list -- [email protected] >> >> > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > coreboot mailing list -- [email protected] >> > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > coreboot mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] _______________________________________________ coreboot mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
