[PATCH] x86: Remove AMX-TRANSPOSE support

[Christian Ludloff]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM Haochen Jiang <haochen.jiang@intel.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> In ISE059, AMX-TRANSPOSE is removed. It will never happen to any
> future hardware since x86 Advisory Group is aware of the removal.
>

That is a closed group, concerning itself with *only* Intel and AMD,
rather than the *entire* x86 ecosystem that exists out there.

Thus, We decide to remove the support to ease maintainence effort.
>

We face AMX-TRANSPOSE support by a product from an entity
*other* than Intel and AMD. Please *retain* its binutils support.

Due to the support being in Binutils 2.44/2.45, we should make sure
> no one use the same encoding in the future or it will conflict
> between versions.


Yes, the AMX-TRANSPOSE bits (CPUID flag + opcodes) *cannot*
be recycled, *ever*.

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C.
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