On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, Aravind Gopalakrishnan wrote: > We might want to still have a software fix for this just in case > someone uses older BIOSes..
There is no "just in case" when it comes to someone using outdated firmware. It is a *given*, except for hardware that is only used in HPC and multiple (> 2) socket servers/workstations (which might be the case here, I don't know what processors we're talking about). The vast majority of PC users will never update their firmware, unless the update is automatically offered to them, and sometimes not even in that case. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
