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This reminded me of a recent talk: USENIX ATC '21/OSDI '21 Joint Keynote Address-It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware: https://www.youtube.com
by andrewf 5y ago
This reminded me of a recent talk: USENIX ATC '21/OSDI '21 Joint Keynote Address-It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36myc8wQhLo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36myc8wQhLo
At 9:00 the speaker lays out some pretty conventional criteria for an operating system (multiplex hardware resources, abstract the hardware platform, protect software principals from each other), and points out that these things are increasingly outside the scope of what people call "the OS". https://imgur.com/dODDwnQ https://imgur.com/dODDwnQ
- matheusmoreira 5y agoThis talk is fantastic and terrifying. I was aware that there were other processors running firmwares but I had no idea it was this bad. I really don't like knowing that I'm not really in control of the machine. I suppose the best we can do now is to somehow load free software onto these hidden chips and completely replace the proprietary firmware. That won't be possible if they start locking the chips down so they only accept signed code...