It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware

Re:It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware by taneliv on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @03:09AM (#28377154)

I think the "speaker's proposed alternative" is to do more academic research in this area.

You have good questions in your comment, and I think he is calling out for searching answers to them and other similar questions. Apparently, the operating system researchers haven't been doing this enough, or at all. His speech is a lament for this state of affairs, and a call to get excited about finding out what benefits would be gained by doing things (very) differently.

But that's just my take, and I'm not working on operating systems research.

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Re:It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware by evilos on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @03:58AM (#28377377)

I guess I'm struggling to understand what the problem to solve here is (besides security bugs). Maybe that is wrong, and the idea is just to try new things. But seems to me that 'try new things' isn't a particularly strong call to action when you are competing for research funds/time.

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Re:It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware by jyounker on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @08:03AM (#28378750)

> Maybe that is wrong, and the idea is just to try new things.

That's what basic research does. It discovers new things, and new ways of doing things.

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Re:It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware by pdimitar on Thursday September 02, 2021 @12:25PM (#28394025)

Addressing potential dozens of firmware level of security exploits is no small thing by itself.

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