Re: i686 quirk for AMD Geode

H. Peter Anvin
2009-11-11T08:04:16Z

On 11/10/2009 10:36 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>>
>> Do you have *any* *evidence* *whatsoever* for that assertion?!
>
> No, just basic feeling based on implementation cost and difficulty
> vs gains as I explained.

Quite on the contrary; in hardware it would be pretty hard to *not* do
the right thing.

>> I personally will consider something that doesn't implement proper
>> security check to be a potential security hole and will NAK the patch.
>
> Even in the case of the NOPL instruction ? I clearly don't see
> the potential security hole !
>

You have it backwards. Prove that there *isn't* one and we'll talk.

-hpa

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