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Re:The Arm Morello Board (2019) by wyldfire on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @04:03PM (#23705876)
The board seems much less interesting than this feature it delivers. "CHERI" sounds really cool. At first I thought it was a rehash of pointer auth/hw sanitizer ARM features that already exist. But no [1]:

> A Portable Architectural Protection Model ... We have experimented with adding the CHERI protection model to a number of ISAs, beginning with 64-bit MIPS, which was the baseline for our original research. More recently, we have developed an experimental version for 64-bit ARMv8-A (in collaboration with Arm), and also for 32/64-bit RISC-V.

Something that can work across architectures will see much faster adoption, I'm happy to see it.

[1] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-941.pdf

Re:The Arm Morello Board (2019) by zxombie on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @04:49PM (#23706492)
We (University of Cambridge) have added it to MIPS and RISC-V. As the same team did both of these they feel similar. Arm is working closely with us to add it to their architecture, but it has a few differences, mostly to allow for experimentation to see what should be added to the future production architecture.
Re:The Arm Morello Board (2019) by waste_monk on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @10:31PM (#23709345)
Let's hope this Morello CHERI experiment is fruitful.