Re: Status of microcode updates

2016-12-10 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 2:23 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: > On 12/09/2016 11:16 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: >> >> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Florian Weimer >> wrote: >>> >>> We would like to enable hardware-assisted lock optimizations in glibc on >>> multiple architectures. In general, this fea

Re: Status of microcode updates

2016-12-10 Thread Florian Weimer
On 12/09/2016 11:16 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: We would like to enable hardware-assisted lock optimizations in glibc on multiple architectures. In general, this feature works only on production hardware with current firmware, and not on pre

Re: Status of microcode updates

2016-12-09 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: > We would like to enable hardware-assisted lock optimizations in glibc on > multiple architectures. In general, this feature works only on production > hardware with current firmware, and not on pre-production machines some > vendors provide

Re: Status of microcode updates

2016-12-09 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 9 December 2016 at 07:41, Josh Boyer wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 7:30 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: >>> On 12/09/2016 01:22 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: > >>> We can't predict the future. But if Fedora builders use commercially >>> supp

Re: Status of microcode updates

2016-12-09 Thread Josh Boyer
On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > On Friday, 09 December 2016 at 13:41, Josh Boyer wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 7:30 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: >> > On 12/09/2016 01:22 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: >> >> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 6:10 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: > [

Re: Status of microcode updates

2016-12-09 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Friday, 09 December 2016 at 13:41, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 7:30 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: > > On 12/09/2016 01:22 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: > >> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 6:10 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: [...] > >>> What about default Fedora installations? Do they come with early bo

Re: Status of microcode updates

2016-12-09 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 9 December 2016 at 07:41, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 7:30 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: >> On 12/09/2016 01:22 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: >> We can't predict the future. But if Fedora builders use commercially >> supported hardware (and not pre-production samples from one of Red Hat's

Re: Status of microcode updates

2016-12-09 Thread Josh Boyer
On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 7:30 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: > On 12/09/2016 01:22 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: >> >> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 6:10 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: >>> >>> We would like to enable hardware-assisted lock optimizations in glibc on >>> multiple architectures. In general, this feature work

Re: Status of microcode updates

2016-12-09 Thread Florian Weimer
On 12/09/2016 01:22 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 6:10 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: We would like to enable hardware-assisted lock optimizations in glibc on multiple architectures. In general, this feature works only on production hardware with current firmware, and not on pre-prod

Re: Status of microcode updates

2016-12-09 Thread Josh Boyer
On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 6:10 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: > We would like to enable hardware-assisted lock optimizations in glibc on > multiple architectures. In general, this feature works only on production > hardware with current firmware, and not on pre-production machines some > vendors provide

Status of microcode updates

2016-12-09 Thread Florian Weimer
We would like to enable hardware-assisted lock optimizations in glibc on multiple architectures. In general, this feature works only on production hardware with current firmware, and not on pre-production machines some vendors provide for architecture bringup. Are the Fedora builders using ha