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DateFri, 20 Jun 2003 19:33:52 +1000
FromNick Piggin <>
SubjectRe: Crusoe's persistent translation on linux?

Xavier Bestel wrote:

>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 :)
>
>

Hmm, did you just write: "Linus, I take you for an imbecile" ? ;)


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