Dear Riccardo, >MIPS is in a little better shape, but there too you need to resort to Little >Endian if you want something cheap as ARM. Are all: https://www.openbsd.org/octeon.html little endian?
According to: https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/ppc64el/ch02s01.html.en 32bit MIPS (big-endian) mips MIPS Malta 4kc-malta Cavium Octeon octeon Not sure if OpenBSD supports anything like it? What do you think about hardware security level of Octeon based routers? Is there any difference between the oldest obsolete ER3 Light and newer models? MIPS is mentioned as a very resistant to SPECTRE issues, the manufacturer lists even only a couple of affected CPUs: https://www.mips.com/blog/mips-response-on-speculative-execution-and-side-channel-vulnerabilities/ But what about SoC models? Discussion at: https://community.ui.com/questions/Meltdown-and-Spectre-Exploits/a9caa545-96f3-404b-aff8-2cdc8836bfd0 concludes there are no SPECTRE issues with their router devices?
