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Curtis Walker

@alphasnupe

RISC-V (

@risc_v

) is the future of secure systems. Looking forward to broadening adoption of this open architecture. #RISCV

1:56 AM · Oct 2, 2020Twitter for Android

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If it doesn't support the full gamut of protections offered by a bare-metal hypervisor like Xen, then it doesn't seem very secure. But maybe someday.

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FWIW IMHO the minimum is there for hardware-enforced virtualized environments (see PMP and M-mode interception of S-mode instructions) in the base architecture The forthcoming hypervisor extension will bring in flexibility in terms of memory, IRQ and other hardware management