On The Metal

Jon Masters


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You can find Jon on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jonmasters.

Some of the highlights of the show include:

  • "Negative Result: Reading Kernel Memory From User Mode" (blog post from July 2017): https://cyber.wtf/2017/07/28/negative-result-reading-kernel-memory-from-user-mode/
  • Spectre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerability)
  • Meltdown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltdown_(security_vulnerability)
  • Speculative execution: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/261792-what-is-speculative-execution
  • ICL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Computers_Limited
  • Hacker News front page, January 1st, 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2018-01-01
  • Boogie Nights, the death of Little Bill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFX-qfYbHKg
  • BBC Micro 6502: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro
  • BBC Master: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Master
  • Storage Wars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_Wars
  • PA-8000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PA-8000
  • SPARCbook 3000ST: https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/04/01/sparcbook-3000st-the-coolest-90s-laptop-sparc-vintagecomputing-retrocomputing-eckmeister/
  • Itanium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium
  • McKinley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Itanium_microprocessors#McKinley_(180_nm)
  • Leon Czolgosz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Czolgosz
  • Humartia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamartia
  • Transmeta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta
  • Transmeta Crusoe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta_Crusoe
  • Richard (Dick) Sites: https://sites.google.com/site/dicksites/
  • Dick Sites, "It's the Memory, Stupid!": http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/architects_look_to_future.pdf
  • John Crawford: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Crawford_(engineer)
  • John Hennessy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Hennessy
  • Kernel page-table isolation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_page-table_isolation
  • Hot Chips 30 keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5XzVF0sAZo
  • Panel at Hot Chips 30 keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5XzVF0sAZo#t=1h17m
  • The Omega Directive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omega_Directive
  • L1TF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreshadow_(security_vulnerability)
  • iDRACula: https://www.servethehome.com/idracula-vulnerability-impacts-millions-of-legacy-dell-emc-servers/
  • MDS, including Zombieload and RIDL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microarchitectural_Data_Sampling
  • Heartbleed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed
  • Lazy FPU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_FP_state_restore
  • Pentium FDIV bug: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
  • Pentium F00F bug: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_F00F_bug
  • Hyper-threading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading
  • Acorn Archimedes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes
  • Acorn RISC machine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture
  • RISC-V: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V
  • ARM Thumb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Thumb
  • ARMv8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#ARMv8-A
  • Chris Celio et al., "Avoiding ISA Bloat with Macro-Op Fusion for RISC-V": https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.02318
  • Chris Celio, "ISA Shootout": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii_pEXKKYUg
  • BeagleBoard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeagleBoard
  • ARM Ares: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/arm_holdings/microarchitectures/neoverse_n1
  • SeaMicro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaMicro
  • Calxeda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calxeda
  • AppliedMicro X-Gene: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/apm/x-gene
  • UEFI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface
  • Broadcom Vulcan: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/cavium/microarchitectures/vulcan
  • Savaged by Systemd: An Erotic Unix Encounter by Michael Warren Lucas: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36190710-savaged-by-systemd
  • Coreboot kexec'ing Linux: https://twitter.com/hugelgupf/status/1158466881373630464
  • IOMMU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input%E2%80%93output_memory_management_unit
  • Slackware: https://en.wikipedi...
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