Comment 489 for bug 1690085

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

(In reply to Daniel Phillips from comment #397)
> This bug should be closed as "FIXED" in my humble opinion. "NEW" is grossly
> inaccurate.
>
> My workstation uptime is now 109 days, continuous operation without suspend,
> mainly idle, mixed with episodes of heavy load on all cores and everything
> in between. The technical term for this is "spectacularly stable". Credit
> belongs to all involved, including AMD, kernel devs, motherboard maker,
> Debian maintainers, and many other groups who made this possible. Again in
> my humble opinion, the only issue remaining is AMD's failure to explain what
> went wrong and exactly how they worked around it. That is a separate bug,
> this one is done.
>
> I suspect that Windows users did get this bug, but they didn't notice it
> because, well use your imagination. Then it was quietly fixed in a Windows
> update supplied by AMD that went out around the same time as the Typical
> Power bios updates.

It seems than the normal power mode under this OS disable core parking (C6)
I say it because i checked myself and core parking doesn't work by default under w10.
So it could explain why it's not a windows thing.