Intel Processors to Become OS Locked
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Intel Processors to Become OS Locked
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Re: Intel Processors to Become OS Locked
#2Well I know what I won't be buying.
Sorry Intel you want my money you'll have to let me do whatever the hell i want with the hardware once i purchase it.
Re: Intel Processors to Become OS Locked
#3Take this with a grain of salt.
The referring Google+ post comes from a German site that seems to be the only reference to said 'locking' and the hypothetical postulated in the link above is purely conjecture.
Re: Intel Processors to Become OS Locked
#4It would help to review the German article which is what a Google Plus post is linking to which this Soyent article is referencing:
http://www.golem.de/news/intel-hooks-im-kernel-sollen-androi...
> Im Fall des x86-Android plant Intel unter anderem, Dateioperationen von Virenscannern per Hooks zu ermöglichen. Damit können dann zum Beispiel in Echtzeit nur neue Dateien gescannt werden, ohne dass die Anti-Malware und das Betriebssystem die bisher üblichen Wege über das Dateisystem gehen müssen.
Which loosely translates as:
> In Android x86's case, Intel plans as well as other things, file operations could be monitored via process hooks designed for anti-virus. It would be done with only new files in real-time without relying directly on the OS.
Nowhere does this indicate to me that it locks you into an OS and chances are that it can be disabled within the firmware.
Re: Intel Processors to Become OS Locked
#5Take this with a grain of salt. The referring Google+ post comes from a German site that seems to be the only reference to said 'locking' and the hypothetical postulated in the link above is purely conjecture.
It would appear more than one reference exists:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-s-64-Bit-Mobile-Chips-W...
Re: Intel Processors to Become OS Locked
#6Time for a crowd funded OpenSPARC / ARM based CPU semiconductor fab ?
Re: Intel Processors to Become OS Locked
#7What is with the domain? Are they trying to cash in on the word soylent?
Re: Intel Processors to Become OS Locked
#8Intel's not this stupid... come on.
Re: Intel Processors to Become OS Locked
#9Time for a crowd funded OpenSPARC / ARM based CPU semiconductor fab ?
Crowd funding is great for many things, but not for a fab. We're talking >$1 BILLION in capital per plant required just to replicate existing technology (not even to begin innovating). Still, if you can raise $1B in a crowdfund, we'd love to know your secrets!
Re: Intel Processors to Become OS Locked
#10Stop with those sketchy over-three-corners, (foreign language article)->(social network post)->(forum post) already. The original article on golem.de talks about kernel hooks. NOTHING about processors except for less utilization b/c hooks allow to circumvent the FS layer so e.g. net->virusscan->fs-n instead of net->fs-in->fs-out->virusscan.