Text: Allows you to determine whether to limit CPUID maximum value. Set this to enabled for legacy operating systems such as Linux or Unix.
Found this in the BIOS of a Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H mobo.
I get how this could be interpreted as offensive, but I think it is just poorly worded.
This option is for if you are using a legacy version of Linux such as 2.6.x (eg, on an old RedHat distro that your business systems are designed to be run on).
This enables a compatibility mode so the old kernels don’t complain.
Given the usual quality of BIOS/UEFI option descriptions it’s remarkably close to being sensible. I would’ve expected something like “enables limiting CPUID maximum value”.
Set to “Enable” to enable the feature.
It’s really just that Linux is the only thing where it’s possible to run an envient version on modern hardware
I run an email service called Port87. I was reading some copy to a friend who resells MS Exchange services and I said “legacy email services, such as Microsoft Exchange”, and he got a bit offended. That was much more accurate than this, and he still felt offended.
I hope it keeps him up at night. I hope your ‘that asshole’ he thinks about at 2am.
I like when my friends stay up thinking about my asshole
It the little things in life
It’s not that little anymore though
@robber Even though I said yes in the bios, cpuid still shows max id of 64 which
is reasonable for an 18 core 36 thread CPU. So it seems the Linux kernel figures it out on it’s own.
