Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: GPLv3 Position Statement | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:01:29 +0100 |
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Ar Mer, 2006-09-27 am 13:41 -0700, ysgrifennodd Linus Torvalds: > I think the hatred of pins became so high that it became almost > unacceptable for motherboard designers to add them on PC's. Nobody wants > to open their case any more ;)
Actually some of the smarter ones wired it to the SMM indications in the chipset so that only BIOS controlled SMM management code can do the update and that does checksumming or basic very crude crypto type checks.
Fortunately the thought of a slammer equivalent that erases the firmware isn't something most vendors want to risk their stock price and business on.
Alan
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