Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Crusoe's persistent translation on linux? | From | Xavier Bestel <> | Date | 20 Jun 2003 11:08:35 +0200 |
| |
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
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |