[$] Toward better handling of hardware vulnerabilities
From the kernel development community's point of view, hardware
vulnerabilities are not much different from the software variety: either
way, there is a bug that must be fixed in software. But hardware vendors
tend to take a different view of things. This divergence has been
reflected in the response to vulnerabilities like Meltdown and Spectre
which was seen by many as being severely mismanaged. A recent discussion
on the Kernel Summit discussion list has shed some more light on how things
went wrong, and what the development community would like to see happen
when the next hardware vulnerability comes around.