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Re:Enable MTE on Pixel 8 by pjmlp on Friday November 03, 2023 @12:19PM (#38130940)
They did, MPX, however the design was buggy and eventually removed.

Currently x86 is the only mainstrem architecture without a plan for hardware memory tagging.

Even RISC-V has an ongoing discussion for hardware memory tagging extensions.

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Re:Enable MTE on Pixel 8 by hmry on Friday November 03, 2023 @04:50PM (#38134825)
If AMD and Intel drag their feet long enough, CHERI will be production ready before then.
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Re:Enable MTE on Pixel 8 by pjmlp on Saturday November 04, 2023 @07:07AM (#38139920)
True, however unless Windows developer community finally embraces ARM, that is something that will only worry them on the server with UNIX based workloads.
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