Re: Debian on Fuloong

[Laurent GUERBY <laurent@guerby.net>]

On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 12:13 +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Laurent GUERBY (laurent@guerby.net) [100221 12:05]:
> > On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 17:07 -0500, Daniel Clark wrote:
> > > 2010/2/15 Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>:
> > > > So, any chance that we could get 2f-boards without the bug? And/Or the
> > > > cpu errata in english?
> > 
> > Here is a description of the issue:
> > 
> > http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2009-11/msg00387.html
> 
> 
> I'm not sure if this is enough to write code that makes
> it impossible to stop the machine by using wrong code.
> 
> The patch that is part of the mail doesn't help here at least
> (unpriviliged user code could bring the whole machine down).

I've never seen claimed that this could be avoided but I might be wrong.

Sincerely,

Laurent