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

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Message-ID: <8FED9E91-8221-4F37-8F3B-EDAD66C024A2@zytor.com>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2025 20:48:02 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...am.me.uk>,
        Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@...uxfoundation.org>
CC: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, 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>,
        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 May 12, 2025 7:00:55 PM PDT, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 10:29 AM Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@...am.me.uk> wrote:
>>
>>  Thank you.  It seems it'll be tough for me though to fulfil the GPG key
>> trustability requirement.  While I've used PGP/GPG since 1995, I haven't
>> been active collecting signatures with my more recent keys/IDs and neither
>> I have appeared in public among Linux kernel developers often enough for
>> me to be identified by face over a video call.  Oh well...
>
>I don't think this has been insurmountable before, particularly for
>anybody who has been around for as long as you have.  Even your
>current email goes back to at least the beginnings of git.
>
>If "two decades+ of active kernel development involvement using the
>same email address" doesn't make you eligible for a kernel.org
>account, we're doing something wrong.
>
>                Linus
>

Yeah, we have dealt with this before :)