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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

-- 
Always remember:
  Never accept the world as it appears to be.
    Dare to see it for what it could be.
      The world can always use more heroes.

  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 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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