The Linux Kernel Disabling HPET For Intel Coffee Lake

[rene]

is there any feature left in an Intel CPU not partially broken or quirky? :-/

[ernstp]

is there any feature left in an Intel CPU not partially broken or quirky? :-/

Rdrand?! 🙂

[CochainComplex]

is there any feature left in an Intel CPU not partially broken or quirky? :-/

MMX ? Maybe

[CochainComplex]

Rdrand?! 🙂

If you mean entropy by thermal noise ...well that should work

[andreano]

I had a Core 2 Duo with broken HPET. Short sleeps would randomly hang the CPU until user input. Workarounds included booting with clocksource=tsc, disabling some CPU sleep state, or disabling tickless kernel.

[Space Heater]

I wonder what other operating systems like Windows, macOS, ESXi, and FreeBSD do to workaround this, or if they also disable it.

[QwertyChouskie]

"FUEL UP WITH SOME ROBUST & BOLD INNOVATION" Yeah sure Intel, whatever you say. :P

[ssokolow]

"FUEL UP WITH SOME ROBUST & BOLD INNOVATION" Yeah sure Intel, whatever you say. :P

No, really. They're out of ideas and want to steal yours. :P

[angrypie]

Yes, AMD has had no major screw-ups post Ryzen.

How do any of those compare to 20+ security bugs that exist solely because Intel wanted to outperform the competition at all costs?

[Guest]

How do any of those compare to 20+ security bugs that exist solely because Intel wanted to outperform the competition at all costs?

You do know that Spectre also affects AMD CPUs as well as ARM CPUs and all of their variants? Only Meltdown is exclusive to Intel.