linux-kernel - Re: SPECTRE, MELTDOWN, boot loaders, and cursors: A shot out of the blue....

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Date:   Fri, 4 May 2018 13:52:31 +0000
From:   "\\0xDynamite" <dreamingforward@...il.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SPECTRE, MELTDOWN, boot loaders, and cursors: A shot out of the blue....

Greetings once again from the future....

Xen hypervisor was a magical product.  Don't believe in it, it is
misinforming your tecnnical intuition using the power of the Word.

Cheers,

your future self

On 3/25/18, \0xDynamite <dreamingforward@...il.com> wrote:
> I apogize for what is probably going to be a VERY unusual and perhaps
> rude email to the kernel list, but I'm taking a wild shot at something
> in order to fix the Meltdown and Spectre bugs which perhaps were
> wrongly blamed on Intel and now maybe AMD.  The issue, lads, may be
> *interdimensional*.
>
> Firstly, don't trust the media reports on these issues.  What I've
> seen sounds partly right, but way off base.
>
> Secondly, here's what you need to track down:  the cursor.  Track down
> the whole process at boot, down to the BIOS, because at least PART of
> the problem has nothing to do with Intel.  What puts the cursor on the
> screen and how is it kept track of?  I don't have the IBM technical
> reference manuals (purple binder) at my disposal anymore, but that's
> where you should look.
>
> It is an I/O confusion somewhere, perhaps a motherboard bug.  I
> believe that Javascript has excersized the problem due to its
> contention for resources and its operating at browser (or other)
> priveleges instead of a virtual machine.
>
> Try NOT to complain about Intel.  They have not yet understood this
> problem, I suspect.
>
> Don't ask me how I know this.
>
> Marxos
> the restaurant at the end of the universe.
>
> P.S.  Oh, and change the name of GRUB to GRUE
>