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Date:   Wed, 17 Aug 2022 16:23:24 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 12:12:05PM +0000, Ashok Raj wrote:
> Instead of doing a complete hack,

What complete hack?!

> could we maybe revive what we attempted
> in 2019? At a minimum it will work for both architectures.
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1567056803-6640-1-git-send-email-ashok.raj@intel.com/

echo 2 >... - now that's a hack.

If you wanna use the kernel for testing your hw, use a local patch. Not
expose it to people and then have me debug all kind of strange lockups.

Geez.

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    Boris.

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