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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>,
	X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kim Naru <kim.naru@amd.com>,
	Aravind Gopalakrishnan <aravind.gopalakrishnan@amd.com>,
	Sherry Hurwitz <sherry.hurwitz@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, CPU, AMD: Add workaround for family 16h, erratum 793
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 17:21:00 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52D9D6FC.7050100@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140118002926.GA22185@amd.pavel.ucw.cz>

On 01/17/2014 04:29 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> Have you checked your dmesg recently? Normal people don't read
> it... it is just too much of it.
> 
>> Printing a warning is appropriate if we can't actually fix the problem
>> in the OS.  If we actually make the problem go away then we have just
>> done our job and we can be done with it.
> 
> I disagree. Older kernel versions still may have problem, etc.
> 
> We normally do print warnings for problems we work around. We want
> vendors to fix their hardware, too...
> 
> ACPI BIOS Warning (bug): 32/64X FACS address mismatch in FADT -
> 0xBDB5FF40/0x00000000BDB64F40, using 32 (20131115/tbfadt-522)
> [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored
> 

You say people don't read their dmesg...
... because there is too much ...
... so let's add more?

What am I missing here?

	-hpa



  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-18  1:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-14 11:41 AMD errata 793 (CVE-2013-6885) needs a workaround in Linux? Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-01-14 11:55 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-14 15:14   ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-14 15:35     ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-14 16:27       ` [PATCH] x86, CPU, AMD: Add workaround for family 16h, erratum 793 Borislav Petkov
2014-01-14 16:30         ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-14 16:42           ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-14 17:46             ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-14 23:07               ` [PATCH -v1.1] " Borislav Petkov
2014-01-15  0:38                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-15 11:10                   ` [PATCH -v1.2] " Borislav Petkov
2014-01-15  0:45                 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, cpu, amd: " tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2014-01-15  0:54                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-15  6:28                     ` Ingo Molnar
2014-01-15 13:36                       ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-15 13:52                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-15 18:38                           ` Ingo Molnar
2014-01-16  4:11                             ` H. Peter Anvin
     [not found]         ` <52D59ACC.3090100@amd.com>
2014-01-14 20:38           ` [PATCH] x86, CPU, AMD: " Borislav Petkov
2014-01-16 17:58             ` Aravind Gopalakrishnan
2014-01-16 18:10               ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-17  0:21               ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-01-17  0:25                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-17 10:18                 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-17 16:23                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-17 17:02                     ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-17 17:36                       ` Aravind Gopalakrishnan
2014-01-17 17:42                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-17 18:05                         ` Aravind Gopalakrishnan
2014-01-17 18:25                           ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-17 22:28         ` Pavel Machek
2014-01-17 22:50           ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-17 22:51             ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-17 22:57               ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-18  0:29               ` Pavel Machek
2014-01-18  1:21                 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-01-18  2:01                   ` Pavel Machek
2014-01-18 10:42                     ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-18 11:08                       ` Pavel Machek
2014-01-18 11:26                         ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-18 11:31                           ` Pavel Machek

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