Jon Masters

On The Metal

• Episode: Jon Masters
• Website: On The Metal
• Feed URL: https://feeds.transistor.fm/on-the-metal-0294649e-ec23-4eab-975a-9eb13fd94e06
• Duration: 01:38:55
• Published: 2020-01-20 12:00

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...