Seriously? By far the most likely outcome is that they don't even bother responding.
That's how corporations operate in 2022. If you're a journalist from the Washington Post, you might get a three-line statement from a spokesperson. Everyone else gets a canned reply from a bot, or nothing at all.
I don't blame Michael for not even bothering to try. Phoronix is the only game in town for much of the topics it covers. The fact that it exists at all, and is effectively run by a single person, is nothing short of amazing.
This is not true, I write to AMD security team for spectre/meltdown/CPU flaws and get reasonable responses. Intel security team is also quite good. The usual wait time is 3-4 days.
Admittedly I do write from my work address.
Talking to journalists is like talking to the police - as an engineer you don’t understand the situation well enough and you need to involve an (expensive) professional to navigate it.
The question going through my head when I get journalist emails is “can I ignore this and save the hours of work with legal/pr?”.
It's a very sensible and correct policy.
So, "likely" the same outcome as when you don't ask, except unlike when you don't ask, there is a different outcome when you do ask? Sounds like you just made the argument in favour of always asking questions.
But it's Phoronix - short reprints, not well-done benchmarks, 1-3 paragraphs long "articles" and backlink spam on forums, wikis and wherever possible. They may ask AMD but that will be another "article" and another wave of spam.
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Just ask!
Seriously. You can ask AMD. Maybe they won’t tell you, but they might. It might be really good info. Why not ask someone who is really knowledgeable about this stuff like a kernel developer who works on x86-64 or worked on the mitigations?
This is what I never understand about Phoronix. People link to them all the time but they run a bunch of benchmarks and then end on “there you go”. I’d like investigation into why. You won’t always get an answer but you should try.