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From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Nuno Silva <nuno.silva@vgertech.com>,
	Samphan Raruenrom <samphan@thai.com>,
	Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Crusoe's persistent translation on linux?
Date: 20 Jun 2003 11:08:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1056100114.2978.31.camel@nomade> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306191707000.1987-100000@home.transmeta.com>

Le ven 20/06/2003 à 02:16, Linus Torvalds a écrit :
> So no, it wouldn't really benefit from it, not to mention that it's not
> even an option since Transmeta has never released enough details to do it
> anyway. Largely for simple security concerns - if you start giving
> interfaces for mucking around with the "microcode", you could do some
> really nasty things. 

Did you just write: "the Crusoe has special backdoors built-in which
would allow a userspace program to takeover the machine, and Transmeta
choose security through obscurity to avoid this problem" ?
Nice call for crackers :)

	Xav


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-06-20  8:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-19 16:37 Crusoe's persistent translation on linux? Samphan Raruenrom
2003-06-19 18:03 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-06-19 19:51   ` Samphan Raruenrom
2003-06-20  0:02     ` Nuno Silva
2003-06-20  0:16       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-06-20  2:08         ` Nuno Silva
2003-06-20  9:08         ` Xavier Bestel [this message]
2003-06-20  9:33           ` Nick Piggin
2003-06-20 14:08           ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-06-20 15:38           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-06-20 16:51             ` AMD MP, SMP, Tyan 2466 kernel
2003-06-20 17:08               ` Bart SCHELSTRAETE
2003-06-20 17:09               ` Brian Jackson
2003-06-25 17:37                 ` Artur Jasowicz
2003-06-25 18:51                   ` joe briggs
2003-06-25 18:16                     ` Mike Dresser
2003-07-21 20:52                     ` Artur Jasowicz
2003-07-22  4:02                       ` Jason
2003-07-23 12:19                         ` paterley
2003-07-23 20:03                           ` Joe Briggs
2003-06-25 19:01                   ` joe briggs
2003-06-25 18:56                     ` Edward Tandi
2003-06-25 22:59                       ` Timothy Miller
2003-06-25 23:17                         ` Edward Tandi
2003-06-25 23:26                           ` Timothy Miller
2003-06-25 23:39                             ` Timothy Miller
2003-06-26  0:29                               ` Edward Tandi
2003-06-25 23:40                             ` Edward Tandi
2003-06-26 15:12                               ` Herbert Poetzl
2003-06-25 23:35                           ` Joel Jaeggli
2003-06-26 12:25                           ` AMD MP, SMP, Tyan 2466, REISERFS I/O error joe briggs
2003-06-26 11:55                             ` Oleg Drokin
2003-06-26 13:37                               ` joe briggs
2003-06-26 23:15                               ` Timothy Miller
2003-06-26 23:48                                 ` Joel Jaeggli
2003-06-27 13:01                                 ` joe briggs
2003-06-20 12:05         ` Crusoe's persistent translation on linux? Samphan Raruenrom
     [not found]     ` <20030619221126.B3287@ucw.cz>
2003-06-23  3:58       ` Crusoe's performance " Samphan Raruenrom
2003-06-23  5:22         ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-06-23  5:40         ` Grzegorz Jaskiewicz
2003-06-23  8:10         ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-06-23  8:26         ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-06-23 18:58           ` Samphan Raruenrom
2003-06-24  1:43             ` dean gaudet
2003-06-24  4:33               ` dean gaudet
2003-06-24 22:54                 ` Samphan Raruenrom
2003-06-24 23:06                   ` dean gaudet
2003-06-23 23:46           ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-06-24  0:51         ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-06-26  3:39         ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-06-26  4:22           ` H. Peter Anvin
     [not found]         ` <200306240051.RAA12097@cesium.transmeta.com>
2003-06-26 19:09           ` Samphan Raruenrom
2003-06-20 10:40 Crusoe's persistent translation " John Bradford
2003-06-20 16:49 ` Eli Carter
2003-06-20 16:56   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-06-20 17:46     ` dean gaudet
2003-06-20 19:35 John Bradford

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