Jeremy, of Linux Questions, gave this interesting presentation on the history of Linux. It dates to 2016, but I just ran across it, so it is totally new!
The volume is a bit low at the start but get goods before the first minute.
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What’s your take on Torvald’s typically blunt assessment of Intel’s “fix” for the Spectre/Meltdown issues?
I’m not enough of a chip person (as in, not at all) to know whether it is, as he described it, complete and utter garbage.
On the other hand, I seem to be in the minority when I say I don’t think they are serious issues for single-use machines: the chance of someone using it and getting lucky enough that something important is exposed at just the right time is so low it isn’t worth their effort. I realize servers are a different story.
I have no way of evaluating his comments, but I would not be surprised if they were spot on.
They’re not spot on, and the person he’s screaming at gives a long, in-depth analysis of the proposed linux patches in the context of the intel microcode patches which are meant as a workaround.
This post in the thread, in particular, is informative (and the author gets props for not responding for Linus’s earlier baiting and name calling):
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1801.2/05282.html