Linux Kernel Drama: AMD's Spectral Chicken

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux Kernel Drama: AMD's Spectral Chicken

There's a bit of Linux kernel code for AMD Zen 2 processors called the "spectral chicken" and a call for cleaning up that code, which was originally written by an Intel Linux engineer, has been rejected...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-AMD-Spectral-Chicken

[emansom]

Made me laugh. +1 for Peter Zijlstra. If AMD wants to name variables, they should contribute the code first.

[unic0rn]

What an eggstorm.

[Alexmitter]

I certainly hope AMD will stick with the name, its a great name.

[RealNC]

It's just a fun peck, don't get your feathers ruffled. I think it's eggcellent.

[euduvda]

As someone who has to deal with "creative" environment variables, I approve the renaming.

Better readability for the future is more important than reiterate some sarcasm.

Peter had his time to vent his anger when implemented, now move on!

[GraysonPeddie]

"Spectral Chicken!" Hahaha funny!

[cthart]

I got a good laugh out of

To which Petkov raised that it's unlikely Peter will ever need to write such code again, to which Thomas Gleixner called that a purely speculative assumption.

[carewolf]

As someone who has to deal with "creative" environment variables, I approve the renaming.

Better readability for the future is more important than reiterate some sarcasm.

It is not sarcasm, it is a chicken mode to deal with spectre, hence spectral chicken mode..

[danboid]

We've not had it so good in Linux land since the heady days of Beefy Miracle, which is yet to be topped.