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
next prev 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
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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