I didn't take the comment as "all Intel CPUs are crap," but that (1) the fix is needed for crap CPUs and (2) the fix is turned on unconditionally on Intel CPUs, even future CPUs. That is, the code itself assumes that all CPUs that could be crap actually are crap. Torvalds wants a flag that could be set appropriately when Intel starts shipping CPUs that don't have this problem.
