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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:57:04 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Matteo Croce <technoboy85@...il.com>,
Sven-Haegar Koch <haegar@...net.de>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: i686 quirk for AMD Geode
On 11/10/2009 10:36 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>>
>> Do you have *any* *evidence* *whatsoever* for that assertion?!
>
> No, just basic feeling based on implementation cost and difficulty
> vs gains as I explained.
Quite on the contrary; in hardware it would be pretty hard to *not* do
the right thing.
>> I personally will consider something that doesn't implement proper
>> security check to be a potential security hole and will NAK the patch.
>
> Even in the case of the NOPL instruction ? I clearly don't see
> the potential security hole !
>
You have it backwards. Prove that there *isn't* one and we'll talk.
-hpa
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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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