On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 09:05:29AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > It has been known to happen that drivers implement workarounds for issues > > in the hardware itself, so that hardware bugs do not get tripped (or are > > tripped less often). > > 🙂 > > You make it sound like it's a rare occurrence, but it's actually > quite common. Most of it is discrete so you'll rarely be exposed to it, > but `grep bugs /proc/cpuinfo` is one of the places where you can see it > being somewhat documented.
One might argue that a driver's whole raison d'être /is/ to work around hardware bugs. But then, perhaps I'm a cynic ;-) Cheers -- t
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