On Sat, 6 Jan 2018 07:40:23 -0800 Lew Wolfgang <wolfgang@sweet-haven.com> wrote:
On 01/06/2018 05:11 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Besides, I now consider open sourced CPUs a very interesting idea. Not trusting > Intel anymore. Never.
I haven't trusted them since their FPU bug coverup!
Yes, an open-sourced CPU design would be great. Perhaps Sun's SPARC could be used as a starting point? I believe they open-sourced it before they were subsumed by Oracle.
Will this dust-up also re-awaken the CISC/RISC debates? Complexity and security are inversely proportional, and Intel's complex instruction set CPU's set the standard for complexity. They hide whole CPU's inside the CPU facade they publicly display! Reduced instruction set CPU's are consistent with the UNIX Philosophy: a function should do only a few basic things, but it should do them very well.
Perhaps a good starting point may be the RISC-V architecture: https://riscv.org/ In particular: https://riscv.org/2018/01/more-secure-world-risc-v-isa/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org