From: "Marcus Rückert" <mrueckert@suse.com>
To: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.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 14:21:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210915142123.49f8137b@fortress.home.nordisch.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210915113410.GA7130@ranerica-svr.sc.intel.com>
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.
darix
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-15 12:21 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 [this message]
2021-09-15 13:00 ` Ricardo Neri
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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