linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/15] x86: Remove support for TSC-less and CX8-less CPUs

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Message-ID: <20250506141631.GEaBoZvzPCWh88xDzu@fat_crate.local>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2025 16:16:31 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...am.me.uk>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Ahmed S . Darwish" <darwi@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
	John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/15] x86: Remove support for TSC-less and CX8-less
 CPUs

On Tue, May 06, 2025 at 02:51:51PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>  Doesn't work for ongoing driver maintenance

Dunno, I'd concentrate my efforts on something, a *little* *bit* more modern.
At some point this is old rusty hw no matter from which way you look at it and
it might as well be left to rest in its sunset days.

But I certainly am not trying to tell you what to do with your time.

What I have problem with is wasting my time maintaining old, ancient hw which
is not worth the electricity it needs to run. Especially if you can get
something orders of magnitudes better in *any* aspect you can think of, and
actually get some real work done.

:-P

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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