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> Linus (...) didn't want to help Intel avoid responsibility for shipping insecure hardware. Whatever is the saying about good intentions, you can argue he end
by nousermane 4y ago
> Linus (...) didn't want to help Intel avoid responsibility for shipping insecure hardware.
Whatever is the saying about good intentions, you can argue he ended up doing Intel a favour here, by shipping patch that took away only a couple % of performance. Surely, it would've hurt them more, reputation-wise, if default workaround took larger chunk of CPU speed.
- Sakos 4y agoPossibly. It also seems like the changes would've added an amount of technical debt that wasn't acceptable to him ("garbage MSR writes" in and out of the kernel). I could understand why he'd want to avoid a bad solution (that would also have to be maintained long-term) just because Intel is unwilling to fix it on their end.