Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Jun 2003 19:33:52 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: Crusoe's persistent translation on linux? |
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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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