On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 09:02:24PM +0000, Rojewski, Cezary wrote:

> There are no circumstances under which Intel recommends distros to try
> to convert out of catpt though. Don't believe aligning all the drivers
> to some general idea just for the sake of aligning is a good move.
> That's why drivers have their own specifics in the first place -
> their complexity and performance could have been negatively impacted
> otherwise.

It could equally be that someone has stuck with the older, now
deprecated, implementations due to compatibility fears and this could
help them deploy the catpt implementation without worrying so much about
breaking things for users.