From: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
To: "Marcus Rückert" <mrueckert@suse.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/umip: Add a umip= cmdline switch
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 06:00:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210915130007.GA7946@ranerica-svr.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210915142123.49f8137b@fortress.home.nordisch.org>
On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 02:21:23PM +0200, Marcus Rückert wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Sep 2021 04:34:10 -0700
> Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > > They're all likely old, arcane applications or games run in wine
> > > which people have no access to the source code anyway so come to
> > > think of it, the once thing is starting to make more sense to me
> > > now.
> >
> > Indeed, no one has reported "modern" application using these
> > instructions.
>
> I am not sure if Blizzard Entertainment would tell us why they use this
> CPU instruction in Overwatch. And that game is "only" 5 years old.
Ah! 5 years old does not seem too old to me. Then it is not only old
applications. Then the warning did catch an app that could in theory be
fixed (if Overwatch is still maintained).
Thanks and BR,
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-15 13:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-07 20:04 [PATCH] x86/umip: Add a umip= cmdline switch Borislav Petkov
2021-09-11 1:14 ` Ricardo Neri
2021-09-11 9:20 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-09-13 21:38 ` Ricardo Neri
2021-09-14 16:51 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-09-15 11:34 ` Ricardo Neri
2021-09-15 12:21 ` Marcus Rückert
2021-09-15 13:00 ` Ricardo Neri [this message]
2021-09-15 13:14 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-09-15 14:46 ` [PATCH] x86/umip: Downgrade warning messages to debug loglevel Borislav Petkov
2021-09-16 0:27 ` Ricardo Neri
2021-09-23 14:59 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-09-13 21:45 ` [PATCH] x86/umip: Add a umip= cmdline switch Ricardo Neri
2021-09-14 16:52 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-09-23 15:03 ` [tip: x86/cpu] x86/umip: Downgrade warning messages to debug loglevel tip-bot2 for Borislav Petkov
2021-09-25 11:31 ` tip-bot2 for Borislav Petkov
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