Re: MIPS Creator CI20 patches (again)

2018-01-08 Thread Paul Boddie
On Tuesday 9. January 2018 00.46.53 Adam Lackorzynski wrote: > On Mon Jan 08, 2018 at 01:14:09 +0100, Paul Boddie wrote: > > > > I'm aiming to follow up with the binutils maintainers about this, but I > > just wondered if any of this sounded problematic or familiar. > > No, not familiar. It

Re: MIPS Creator CI20 patches (again)

2018-01-08 Thread Adam Lackorzynski
On Mon Jan 08, 2018 at 01:14:09 +0100, Paul Boddie wrote: > On Monday 8. January 2018 00.37.41 Adam Lackorzynski wrote: > > > > Is it ok if you have visibility("hidden") instead of internal? > > No, it would seem that all other visibility types produce the same error. In > fact, the only thing

L4Re and Meltdown / Spectre attacks

2018-01-08 Thread Matthias Lange
Hi, after the dust around the Meltdown and Spectre attacks has settled a bit, you may wonder how Fiasco.OC / L4Re fares with regard to these attacks. Fiasco.OC / L4Re is vulnerable to Meltdown-like attacks because the kernel is mapped into each task. However, the kernel does not map all physical