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Re:Illumos to drop SPARC Support by mixmastamyk on Friday May 07, 2021 @01:29PM (#27078466)
Security requirements (and awareness) have increased over the years, have they not?
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Re:Illumos to drop SPARC Support by bcantrill on Friday May 07, 2021 @02:05PM (#27078853)
They definitely have! And we had a (zones-based) public cloud through it all. On that note, Alex Wilson's description of working with Robert Mustacchi on mitigating Meltdown by adding KPTI to illumos[0] definitely merits a read!

[0] https://blog.cooperi.net/a-long-two-months

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