[Info-vax] Intel x86-64 Processor Design Security Vulnerability?

[JKB]

Le Wed, 3 Jan 2018 13:54:38 -0500,
Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> écrivait :
> On 01/03/2018 11:11 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> On 2018-01-03 03:01:07 +0000, DaveFroble said:
>> 
>>> Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>>
>>>> If this is what it sounds like, I wonder if a microkernel based 
>>>> operating system would be more protected against this than a 
>>>> monolithic operating system would be ?
>>>
>>> What does that matter in c.o.v?
>> 
>> More than you might realize...
>> 
>> http://www.sture.ch/vms/Usenix_VMS-on-Mach.pdf
>> 
>>> VSI is porting the OS, not re-writing it.
>> 
>> A platform port necessarily rewrites the architecture-specific parts of 
>> the operating system.   How much beyond that minimum gets reworked, 
>> rewritten and redesigned, varies.  Probably less than what should be, 
>> and more than what folks with existing kernel code would prefer.
>> 
>> But I don't see VSI moving to Mach.
>> 
>> 
>
> Wasn't that what the FreeVMS guys were trying to do?
> Guess we saw how well that went...

	Nope. Over L4-X2 microkernel. But I don't have time enough to
	produce reliable code without some other volunteers.

	Regards,

	JKB

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