Linus Torvalds has strongly opposed the introduction of x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels, describing them as unofficial, technically incorrect, and unnecessarily complex. He criticizes the use of version naming like 'v2', 'v3', 'v4' and argues that relevant information should come from CPUID bits, which are a real model for microarchitectural features.

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