On Thu, Nov 17, 2016, at 12:12, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 11:38:46AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2016, at 09:50, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > But we do already have > 1 year of widespread testing by users > > > running unstable/testing on machines with TSX enabled. > > > > > > So for unstable/stretch this does not seem to be a huge problem. > > > > > > These are normal bugs that should be found and fixed if possible, > > > just like passing a pointer in an int or many other kinds of bugs. > > > > > > Or do I miss anything here? > > > > I am not sure we have that much user coverage, given the blacklisting we > > did in glibc. > >... > > Skylake is not blacklisted anywhere, I assume?
Not by us, at least. The processor model, firmware or microcode might limit the availability of Intel TSX. But it took quite a while for out-of-the-box Skylake BIOSes (i.e. installed to the motherboard in the factory) to actually run Linux well enough to finish a Debian install run (!). Actually, it took a while for it to do so even when the user updated the BIOS from the motherboard vendor site before attempting to install Debian... -- Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <h...@debian.org>
