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From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
To: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <aravind.gopalakrishnan@amd.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kim Naru <kim.naru@amd.com>,
	Sherry Hurwitz <sherry.hurwitz@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, CPU, AMD: Add workaround for family 16h, erratum 793
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:21:24 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140117002123.GA9165@khazad-dum.debian.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52D81DB5.7000608@amd.com>

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There is no "just in case" when it comes to someone using outdated firmware.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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-17  0:21 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 [this message]
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
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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