Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 12:26:20 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
        Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Kim Naru <kim.naru@amd.com>,
        Aravind Gopalakrishnan <aravind.gopalakrishnan@amd.com>,
        Sherry Hurwitz <sherry.hurwitz@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, CPU, AMD: Add workaround for family 16h, erratum 793
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On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 12:08:29PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> ?? By the time userspace is booted, you have overwritten the MSR, and
> information, if the BIOS is buggy, was lost.

Bullshit - if you don't apply the workaround, the bit in the MSR remains
unset.

Drop this senseless conversation and go play with something else. At
least I am.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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