From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752326AbcCLMEx (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Mar 2016 07:04:53 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-f46.google.com ([74.125.82.46]:35994 "EHLO mail-wm0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751503AbcCLMEw (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Mar 2016 07:04:52 -0500 Message-ID: <1457784289.2007.19.camel@nexus-software.ie> Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/FPU: Fix FPU handling on legacy FPU machines From: "Bryan O'Donoghue" To: Borislav Petkov , Linus Torvalds Cc: Ingo Molnar , Andy Lutomirski , Andy Shevchenko , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "x86@kernel.org" , Fenghua Yu , "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton , Dave Hansen , Oleg Nesterov , "Yu, Yu-cheng" Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 12:04:49 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20160311220313.GG4312@pd.tnic> References: <20160310125610.GA26708@pd.tnic> <20160310145940.GB26708@pd.tnic> <20160311090840.GA8486@gmail.com> <20160311094802.GA4312@pd.tnic> <1457694124.2007.12.camel@nexus-software.ie> <20160311112610.GC4312@pd.tnic> <20160311113206.GD4312@pd.tnic> <20160311220313.GG4312@pd.tnic> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.16.5-1ubuntu3.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2016-03-11 at 23:03 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 10:32:43AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Obvious Ack to the patch, along with a "how did this ever work > > before?" comment.. > > I had a sarcastic sentence in the commit message which I deleted > later: > > "Apparently no one had tried the kernel on a 486er after the FPU > rewrite. Backwards compatibility is overrated." > > :-) > > I'm still wondering, though, why didn't the Quark people scream > earlier... And who knows, it was probably b0rked even before the > FPU rewrite. > Busy with the dayjob :) so I haven't updated on Galileo since 4b696dcb1a55e40648ad0eec4af991c72f945a85 (Feb 28 or so) but... we'll do a better job keep track of -next to catch this stuff earlier --- bod