Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262482AbTFTIyv (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2003 04:54:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262489AbTFTIyu (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2003 04:54:50 -0400 Received: from AGrenoble-101-1-3-38.w193-253.abo.wanadoo.fr ([193.253.251.38]:36504 "EHLO awak") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262482AbTFTIyt convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2003 04:54:49 -0400 Subject: Re: Crusoe's persistent translation on linux? From: Xavier Bestel To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Nuno Silva , Samphan Raruenrom , Vojtech Pavlik , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Message-Id: <1056100114.2978.31.camel@nomade> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.0 Date: 20 Jun 2003 11:08:35 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 844 Lines: 19 Le ven 20/06/2003 ? 02:16, Linus Torvalds a ?crit : > 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/