Reply to post: Re: We need architecture diversity for gaurd against vulnerabilities

Linus Torvalds pulls pin, tosses in grenade: x86 won, forget about Arm in server CPUs, says Linux kernel supremo

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Re: We need architecture diversity for gaurd against vulnerabilities

The theory being that when one is found to have a vulnerability, we switch over to another one and wait for that one to have a vulnerability? I want multiple architectures to prevent the monoculture problem, but I don't see how this helps us in the event of a security problem. Whenever there is a problem in security, the issue is rarely the processors being purchased now, because they can hold back on them until they've fixed it, but all the old ones that are running vulnerable in the field.

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