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Yup - this will finally clear any doubt...

Yup - this will finally clear any doubt...

Posted Nov 9, 2010 14:11 UTC (Tue) by hmh (subscriber, #3838)
In reply to: Yup - this will finally clear any doubt... by lxoliva
Parent article: FSFLA: Linux kernel is "open core"

You'd need to taint anything that is SMM-capable.

You'd also need to taint anything that lacks an IOMMU configured in such a way that NO device can access non-exclusive memory, and where a device cannot attack other devices in the same bus.

I.e. it would be useless.


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