Re: [opensuse] time to pressure Intel for a chip replacement (was Re: Time to look for a kernel update...)

On 01/03/2018 11:31 AM, Christopher Myers wrote:

From AMD's perspective, it would definitely be exasperating to have your hardware penalized when you didn't screw stuff up... Surely there's got to be some way to selectively enable the "protections" based off of CPU model, like there is with other features?

It was in a patch that exempted AMD processors submitted by an AMD employee that the hint as to the root cause was found. So the patch, already accepted, will do as you suggest. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done.