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So somebody isn't telling the truth here. Somebody is pushing complete garbage for unclear reasons. Sorry for having to point that out. As it is, the patches a
by kakarot 9y ago
So somebody isn't telling the truth here. Somebody is pushing complete
garbage for unclear reasons. Sorry for having to point that out.
As it is, the patches are COMPLETE AND UTTER GARBAGE.
They do literally insane things. They do things that do not make
sense. That makes all your arguments questionable and suspicious. The
patches do things that are not sane.
Is Linus suggesting these patches are so bad that there could possibly be a camouflaged backdoor?
- sgc 9y agoHe certainly doesn't think it is a mistake. And that would fall within the spectrum of possibilities, but I would doubt anyone considers that as a probable reason, since it would be stupid to push something like that right now. Like future-destroying stupid.
- kakarot 9y agoBut if he doesn't think it's a mistake... what could it be?
- sgc 9y agoHe says: The whole IBRS_ALL feature to me very clearly says "Intel is not serious about this, we'll have a ugly hack that will be so expensive that we don't want to enable it by default, because that would look bad in benchmarks". So instead they try to push the garbage down to us. And they are doing it entirely wrong, even from a technical standpoint. I'm sure there is some lawyer there who says "we'll have to go through motions to protect against a lawsuit". But legal reasons do not make for good technology, or good patches that I should apply.
- BonesJustice 9y agoDoubtful. Possibly a fix for an as-yet-undisclosed variant of the known attacks. Possibly mere ineptitude.