Comment 227 for bug 1690085

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In , malakudi (malakudi-linux-kernel-bugs) wrote :

(In reply to fin4478 from comment #141)
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> Asus sure knows better than intel what tools to use when creating a
> motherboard. Nobody buys intel motherboards. Intel cpus have had and will
> have hardware errors too, so let us stop here.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug

I don't understand what you are trying to say, sure Intel has bugs and more recent ones from the FDIV bug, there was hyperthreading bug in Skylake and Kabylake CPUs - which were fixed by microcode update.

The problem discussed here is probably hardware related and we hope it could be fixed with a future microcode (AGESA) update. Workaround it in software (the rcuo threads fix) would be nice but since it doesn't fix it for 100% of the cases, it should be investigated further. Intel Skylake hyperthreading issue took around 18 months to be fixed in microcode, so I can wait for a fix from AMD. But we need a confirmation that a. they have reproduced the issue and are looking at it and b. that it can be fixed with microcode update.