Re: Linux patch disabling AVX when eagerfpu is turned off - possibly not required

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Jan 21 2016 - 16:09:27 EST


On 01/21/16 13:03, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
> Hello Leonid,
>
> You are probably right. Let me check this and get back to you.
>
> Thanks,
> Yu-cheng
>

The hardware people have gotten back to us and this inconsistency in the
SDM is unintentional (other places in the SDM has it correctly.) So we
should revert this patch.

-hpa