Re: [PATCH] x86/fpu: Get rid of CONFIG_AS_FXSAVEQ

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Date: Fri Jan 18 2019 - 07:09:30 EST


On 2019-01-18 00:24:08 [+0100], Borislav Petkov wrote:
> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
>
> This was a "workaround" to probe for binutils which could generate
> FXSAVEQ, apparently gas with min version 2.16. In the meantime, minimal
> required gas version is 2.20 so all those workarounds for older binutils
> can be dropped.

indeed.

> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Sebastian