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Thank you for the excellent summary here. You should have written the tl;dr for the Windows team even though I know that officially saying this would likely pis
by localhost 5y ago
Thank you for the excellent summary here. You should have written the tl;dr for the Windows team even though I know that officially saying this would likely piss off just as many people.
One follow-on question - any insights into how what you wrote above explains why Microsoft dropped support for AMD Zen in Win11 (Zen+ and higher are only supported)? Looking at Wikichip, it doesn't seem like there's a feature missing, so perhaps there's an unfixable bug in Zen?
- Macha 5y agoIsn't RDRAND broken in Zen1? (I think it was broken on launch in zen2 and zen3 also but they patched it in agesa updates)
- localhost 5y agoI don't know if that's the case, but wouldn't that be a strange reason to withhold a Windows release from it?
- astrange 5y agoIf nobody uses Zen1 then it's worth dropping just so you don't have to test it.