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@ric96 how many years/decades before cheri hits a product or devkit available to mortals?

@zygoon there are more of these devkits outside Arm than you realise
But it will still be many years before it hits consumer products. The silicon exists but the software still needs to prove itself. And the entire stack needs to prove itself that it's actually more secure.
129bit registers are s a lot of silicon real-estate to just go and have them manufactured.

@ric96 it feels like going back to segmentation, just with enough granularity that the security features pay off.

Is there a qemu and binutils tree anywhere for people to try?

@zygoon there are fvp fast models, they are a bit of a pia to get setup but work well.
https://developer.arm.com/documentation/102233/2022-0M0/Introduction-to-Arm-Development-Studio-Morello-Edition/Morello-Fixed-Virtual-Platform-models

@ric96 Is that the same thing Linaro was using before aarch64 was public?

$DIETY those were indeed painful to set up.

@zygoon yes.

@ric96 I remember figuring out if my laptop can get more RAM to run those things back in 2010.

What are the memory requirements for a minimal model running the kernel and some userspace?

@zygoon no clue, I think it ran on my previous workstation with 32gigs of memory.