[$] Toward better handling of hardware vulnerabilities

From the kernel development community's point of view, hardwarevulnerabilities are not much different from the software variety: eitherway, there is a bug that must be fixed in software. But hardware vendorstend to take a different view of things. This divergence has beenreflected in the response to vulnerabilities like Meltdown and Spectrewhich was seen by many as being severely mismanaged. A recent discussionon the Kernel Summit discussion list has shed some more light on how thingswent wrong, and what the development community would like to see happenwhen the next hardware vulnerability comes around.