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echo: rberrypi
to: MARTIN GREGORIE
from: AHEM A RIVET`S SHOT
date: 2020-08-28 15:11:00
subject: Re: Spectre / Meltdown

On Fri, 28 Aug 2020 12:38:39 -0000 (UTC)
Martin Gregorie  wrote:

> I'm really disapointed that there hasn't been more work done on both
> hardware as OS design to make cross-process interference impossible and
> to properly implement hardware protection rings to stop application-level
> code clobbering the OS and the OS from clobbering to low-level drivers.

 It doesn't help when pipelined processor optimisations break the
barriers.

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