Re:Rust has been forked to the Crab Language
by alexvoda on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @07:00AM
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The most idiotic example of their stance with regards to microcode is related to Spectre and Meltdown. They deliberately removed warnings:
"Another significant change in this release is that it was pointed out
that there were error messages in Linux suggesting users to update x86
CPU microcode. Since such microcode is non-Free Software, such messages
don't belong in GNU Linux-libre. We now have patterns to detect and
clean up this sort of message. A number of them were introduced
recently, relying on microcode changes to mitigate Spectre and Meltdown
problems, but there might be others that go farther back. I haven't yet
made my mind on whether to go back, check and possibly respin such
earlier releases."
"Another significant change in this release is that it was pointed out that there were error messages in Linux suggesting users to update x86 CPU microcode. Since such microcode is non-Free Software, such messages don't belong in GNU Linux-libre. We now have patterns to detect and clean up this sort of message. A number of them were introduced recently, relying on microcode changes to mitigate Spectre and Meltdown problems, but there might be others that go farther back. I haven't yet made my mind on whether to go back, check and possibly respin such earlier releases."
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2018-04/msg00002...