linux-kernel - Re: [URGENT rfc patch 0/3] tsc clocksource bug fix

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1307060016370.32106@ionos.tec.linutronix.de>
Date:	Sat, 6 Jul 2013 00:17:46 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Alex Shi <alex.shi@...el.com>, hpa@...ux.intel.com,
	tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	andi.kleen@...el.com, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [URGENT rfc patch 0/3] tsc clocksource bug fix

On Fri, 5 Jul 2013, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 11:50:05PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > Yeah, but our well justified paranoia still prevents us from trusting
> > these CPU flags. Maybe some day BIOS is going to be replaced by
> > something useful. You know: Hope springs eternal....
> 
> Not in the next 10 yrs at least if one took a look at the
> overengineered, obese at birth and braindead crap by the name of UEFI.

Good news! 10 years is way less than eternity and just before
retirement :)
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