On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 08:25:41AM +0100, Paul Sutton wrote: > Would any of the boosts in sales be also attributed to the current > intel security issues, spectre, meltdown and more recent problems > that affect intel architecture. I would assume that power9 does not > suffer from similar problems, (not that we should be complacent) so > this combined with freedom and open hardware is welcome.
I'm very doubtful about Power9 not having such issues, unless: - it does not use speculative execution at all (and how does it manage being high-performance?) - it does not have the "separate VM" features at all It is less widespread, so maybe nobody has found / publicised an attack yet... > On 14/09/18 22:36, Timothy Pearson wrote: > > On 09/14/2018 04:02 PM, Paul Boddie wrote: > >> On Tuesday 12. September 2017 16.07.12 Timothy Pearson wrote: > >>> Just wanted to pass this along from the FSF on this side of the pond in > >>> case you haven't seen it yet: > >>> > >>> https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/support-the-talos-ii-a-candidate-for-respects-your-freedom-certification-by-pre-ordering-by-september-15 > > > >> One year later and it looks like this is available to purchase: > > > >> https://raptorcs.com/TALOSII/ > > > >> Is that correct and why didn't you keep us posted? ;-) Have you had much > >> interest from the Free Software community? > > > >> Paul > > > > Yes, it's true! :-) We've been selling these machines for the better > > part of a year now, and so far the reception has been quite positive. > > > > We'll have some of our hardware available on display / for live demo at > > the OpenPOWER Summit in Amsterdam [1] if anyone is interested in trying > > one out live... > > > > [1] https://openpowerfoundation.org/summit-2018-10-eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discussion mailing list > > Discussion@lists.fsfe.org > > https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion > > > > This mailing list is covered by the FSFE's Code of Conduct. All > > participants are kindly asked to be excellent to each other: > > https://fsfe.org/about/codeofconduct > > > _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfe.org https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion This mailing list is covered by the FSFE's Code of Conduct. All participants are kindly asked to be excellent to each other: https://fsfe.org/about/codeofconduct
