On Wednesday 27 June 2007 13:08:16 Theo de Raadt wrote: > Various developers are busy implimenting workarounds for serious bugs > in Intel's Core 2 cpu. > > These processors are buggy as hell, and some of these bugs don't just > cause development/debugging problems, but will *ASSUREDLY* be > exploitable from userland code. > > As is typical, BIOS vendors will be very late providing workarounds / > fixes for these processors bugs. Some bugs are unfixable and cannot > be worked around. Intel only provides detailed fixes to BIOS vendors > and large operating system groups. Open Source operating systems are > largely left in the cold.
When it becomes known that a fix/workaround is being horded and not distributed, I hope we hear of it quickly. It will be time for the user community to start talking with Intel. Or has this already started? --STeve Andre'
