By: aaron spink (aaronspink.delete@this.notearthlink.net), August 12, 2019 8:18 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Linus Torvalds (torvalds.delete@this.linux-foundation.org) on August 11, 2019 10:43 am wrote:
> But do you want to have the fixed firmware? Oh yes you do. I'm not trying to downplay the bug of the
> RDRAND instruction itself - it's a huge CPU bug, and it's very embarrassing, and AMD should make
> damn sure that they add proper tests for this so that it never ever happens to them again.
>
Its still hard to believe that they've had back to back basic functional issues with RDRAND on release. You would think that after the first escape they would of made its functional test part of the release gates.
> But do you want to have the fixed firmware? Oh yes you do. I'm not trying to downplay the bug of the
> RDRAND instruction itself - it's a huge CPU bug, and it's very embarrassing, and AMD should make
> damn sure that they add proper tests for this so that it never ever happens to them again.
>
Its still hard to believe that they've had back to back basic functional issues with RDRAND on release. You would think that after the first escape they would of made its functional test part of the release gates.
