* Borislav Petkov (bp@xxxxxxx) wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 12:30:36PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > Indeed, it's only for this weird case where you suddenly need to change > > it. > > No, there's more: > > .name = "Broadwell-noTSX", > .name = "Haswell-noTSX", Haswell came out and we made the CPU definition, and then got a microcode update that removed the feature. So the common feature of noTSX and IBRS is that they're the only two cases where a CPU has released and then the flags have changed later. Dave > -- > Regards/Gruss, > Boris. > > SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) > -- -- Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@xxxxxxxxxx / Manchester, UK
