Article 6SQBE Linus Torvalds Comes Out Against "Completely Broken" x86_64 Feature Levels

Linus Torvalds Comes Out Against "Completely Broken" x86_64 Feature Levels

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Michael Larabel
from Phoronix on (#6SQBE)
With the new Linux kernel patches posted yesterday for cleaning up x86 32-bit kernels on x86_64 CPUs as part of that patch series was introducing new Kconfig build options around the x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels. It turns out though that Torvalds is completely against how the x86_64 feature levels are handled by the compiler toolchain folks and doesn't want to see it invading the kernel...
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