Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Jan 2014 23:50:13 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86, CPU, AMD: Add workaround for family 16h, erratum 793 |
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On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:28:06PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Would it make sense to printk() a warning?
No because people come and start bitching about their dmesg containing a warning and whether their hardware is b0rked without even reading the actual words.
> BIOS is clearly buggy in this case, and it may cause problems with > another operating system, earlier kernel, or maybe early in boot > before MSR is written...
Well, if the problem happens, the machine will lock. If it doesn't lock => no problem and we apply the workaround => no problem at all. :-)
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