Amen. Huge silver lining to Meltdown has been raised awareness over what a mess our hardware is.
As long as we're in Intel x86 land, the Plan 9 service-per-box approach is probably about the best we can do, and I'm not saying that with any joy, or as an endorsement.
Or, perhaps we can claw our way back to the 1960s and reclaim working memory protection? As obvious as that sounds, I wouldn't take it for granted. People already accept all sorts of half-broken proprietary bullshit for GPU performance, bootloading, AMT, etc. From the mailing lists, looks like Intel is trying to normalize that for CPUs as well.
As long as we're in Intel x86 land, the Plan 9 service-per-box approach is probably about the best we can do, and I'm not saying that with any joy, or as an endorsement.
Or, perhaps we can claw our way back to the 1960s and reclaim working memory protection? As obvious as that sounds, I wouldn't take it for granted. People already accept all sorts of half-broken proprietary bullshit for GPU performance, bootloading, AMT, etc. From the mailing lists, looks like Intel is trying to normalize that for CPUs as well.