> > Set a taint flag, > That's hardly any useful if the machine is dead afterwards.
It won't be the hardware will do a failsafe shutdown first. > You'll just end up with "Linux destroyed my laptop" headlines all > over the internet and rightfully very annoyed users. You have to systematically sit down and tweak your machine. > The philosophy didn't include physically destroying hardware > as far as I know. It most certainly did. With safety checks you could override. > > As root you can erase the bios, > We don't ship the devbios driver for good reasons. Thats debatably a bad reason (the user space API is wrong thats all), and one thats totally inconsistent with some of the other drivers we do ship. > > lock the hard disk with a random > > password, reflash your video card .... > > That all requires significant effort and custom software. It's not that we > have a one liner echo destroy > /sys/.../flash-bios. Well you can do the hard disk one in one line of perl, the video card one in a small bit of C. And this merely makes the argument that raising the trip points should be harder. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
