[ltp] Can you trust your firmware?

[Frank Gevaerts]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 06:04:58PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> Yes, that means you are at the mercy of Dell or Lenovo or HP if there
> is a bug in the BIOS; just as you are at the mercy of Intel or AMD if
> there is a microcode bug in their processor chip.  If that is
> unacceptable to you, I'm afraid you'll probably have to build your own
> laptop/computer/processor from scratch....

And shortcuts like using an existing compiler, even if you have it's
source, are out. Read http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html for
some interesting insights

Frank

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"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan