The addendum of his proposal read, “A patented mining chip hardware feature “ASICBOOST” has been the subject of debate and controversy in the community. This issue is raised for the WG to consider testing protocol/software changes that ban/disable/render ineffective this hardware optimization.”
Garzik also quoted Bitmain’s CEO Jihan Wu, who said he would be willing to work toward the ban of Asicboost if the community desired it.
Read more here: https://news.bitcoin.com/jeff-garzik-asks-community-if-asicboost-should-be-disabled/
this would be awesome for us GPU miners, however I wonder what the affect to bitcoin transaction performance would be. are they trying to increase the number of miners?