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Linus Torvalds is "fed up" with making kernel changes to address faulty hardware


Linux Creator Linus Torvalds recently expressed frustration with change proposals to the Linux kernel that are only "required" due to faulty hardware. Phoronix notes that Torvalds ranted...

A hot potato: Linus Torvalds is sick and tired of trying to "fix" Linux to work on Intel's faulty processors. "I think this time we push back on the hardware people and tell them it's *THEIR* damn problem, and if they can't even be bothered to say yay-or-nay, we just sit tight," Torvalds said. Shitemov indicated that there was supposed to be a patch that disabled LAM until LASS was ready for implementation, but the fix "never got applied for some reason."

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