Gee, if only they had a Linus Torvalds type around to block irresponsible commits.
Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability
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Re: Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability
#12Gee, if only they had a Linus Torvalds type around to block irresponsible commits.
They did, once upon a time, after a fashion:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...
https://www.wired.com/2002/01/bill-gates-trustworthy-computi...
Re: Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability
#13Gee, if only they had a Linus Torvalds type around to block irresponsible commits.
Didn't Torvalds already accept Intel's "garbage" Linux kernel patches?
Re: Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability
#14Linus was right
About what? Would you have a link?
Re: Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability
#15Gee, if only they had a Linus Torvalds type around to block irresponsible commits.
Nah, it's just the well-known issue with the microcode being buggy. There's nothing new really.
Re: Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability
#16Linus was right
I thought he was angry about the mitigation being disabled by default, not being unstable.
Re: Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability
#17Linus was right
About what? Would you have a link?
Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for unclear reasons.” http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1801.2/04628.html
Re: Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability
#18I lost many hours over this last week. The system was unable to boot and finally a thread on reddit came to the rescue ( https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/7sbihd/howto_f... ).
This actually made the system boot but there are some leftovers being installed on first boot that I've been unable to disable that also causes the system to be unable to boot.
So now, the machine is running but as soon as it is restarted we have to re-image the disk, go through the process of manually removing patches, and then pray that we don't have a power shortage as we'd have to do everything yet again on next boot.
I'm not convinced that this patch will solve the issue either, because if this updates requires a reboot the fix won't be installed if we can't boot. I might try to install this update from the recovery console see if that works.
Quite frustrating.
Re: Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability
#19Linus was right
Aren't we talking about two different things? Linux vs Windows kernel?