Linus Torvalds Calls Intel Patches ‘Complete and Utter Garbage’

Linus Torvalds Calls Intel Patches ‘Complete and Utter Garbage’

Linus Torvalds Calls Intel Patches ‘Complete and Utter Garbage’ Published on January 22, 2018 at 08:44AM An anonymous reader writes: On the Linux Kernel Mailing List, Linus Torvalds ended up responding to a long-time kernel developer (and former Intel engineer) who’d been describing a new microcode feature addressing Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation “where a future …