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minus-squareViklinkfedilinkEnglish0•edit-27 months agoRISC-V ISA isn’t magically exempt from vulnerabilities. You can still be hit at a microcode level. https://www.phoronix.com/news/GhostWrite-Vulnerability-RISC-V For AMD, I’m wondering if OpenSIL can help prevent similar, deep system firmware vulnerabilities from lingering cross numerous product generations.
minus-squaremesalinkfedilinkEnglish0•edit-27 months agoIt would improve the number of eyes if you had full specs. You can arguably identify exploits and bugs much faster. I also just want RISC-V :)
RISC-V ISA isn’t magically exempt from vulnerabilities. You can still be hit at a microcode level.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GhostWrite-Vulnerability-RISC-V
For AMD, I’m wondering if OpenSIL can help prevent similar, deep system firmware vulnerabilities from lingering cross numerous product generations.
It would improve the number of eyes if you had full specs. You can arguably identify exploits and bugs much faster.
I also just want RISC-V :)