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

From: Yu-cheng Yu
Date: Thu Jan 21 2016 - 16:14:02 EST


On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 01:08:18PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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
>
Agree. Thanks Peter and Leonid!