[Haskell-cafe] CPU with Haskell support

Joachim Durchholz jo at durchholz.org
Wed Jan 20 18:56:44 UTC 2016


More info on microcode updates can be found in
https://www.dcddcc.com/pubs/paper_microcode.pdf

Salient points:

- Microcode is entirely undocumented.
- Microcode is indeed encrypted, though there seem to be loopholes.
- Microcode update times can take up to 2 million CPU cyles.
- Microcode updates could be an unexpected attack vector. Maybe.

Regards,
Jo


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