On Sat, Feb 08, 2025 at 11:05:00PM +0000, David Laight wrote: > Defaulting to SMAP just requires a bit of bravery! > After all (as you said) it ought to get patched out before userspace exists. > It is still fairly new (Broadwell ix-5xxx). > I'm sure a lot of people are still running Linux on Sandy bridge cpu. The Intel folk posting over at https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/ have a bunch of old yellers they test on (and probably more they can dig up if needed) and will likely be happy to boot test a patch of the sort, just explicitly state you want a pre-SMAP CPU.
