Port Qubes to ppc64 [3 bitcoin bounty]
QubesOS is the most secure operating system available, by far. However, it unfortunately only runs on the x86 instruction set, which runs on unauditable and insecure firmware. The Power Architecture is a much more secure ISA. Products like the Talos II (edit: and now much more affordable Blackbird) with the Power9 CPU are fully open, with auditable schematics, firmware, and software - and being able to run QubesOS on such devices would be a huge win for the infosec community. There are various ways to achieve this compatibility, so I thought that this issue could be a way to track them/discuss. 1 - Xen could have a ppc64 port (Raptor Computing Systems has offered free hardware to incentivize) 2 - Using the seL4 microkernel (https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/3894), which is already looking into supporting the Power Architecture 3 - Qubes' Hypervisor Abstraction Layer (HAL), which utlizes libvirt to support multiple hypervisors, yet currently only supports Xen, could be expanded to support KVM, to run on ppc64. ### **March 26, 2022: We are now all in agreement for Xen+Power (option 1).** Funds available as of May 7th, 2022: I (Robert Spigler) have 0.35 bitcoin & Blackbird Bundle @leo-lb has pledged 0.8 btc (need to confirm) Total 1.15 btc @madscientist159 Has offered to do the Xen port for 2 btc (just Xen port; no Qubes integration yet) Power Foundation has made a statement of support (https://twitter.com/OpenPOWERorg/status/1504112361975730186?s=20), but
Posted by Rspigler on Sep 18, 2018, 2:54 AM
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[Feature] Support external model integration via personal API keys and local LLMs (BYOK)
> So when head of companies don’t care about quality, they’ll push hard no matter what to have speed.
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Support standalone Windows installer (`codex-setup.exe`)
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Port Qubes to ppc64 [3 bitcoin bounty]
QubesOS is the most secure operating system available, by far. However, it unfortunately only runs on the x86 instruction set, which runs on unauditable and insecure firmware. The Power Architecture is a much more secure ISA. Products like the Talos II (edit: and now much more affordable Blackbird) with the Power9 CPU are fully open, with auditable schematics, firmware, and software - and being able to run QubesOS on such devices would be a huge win for the infosec community. There are various ways to achieve this compatibility, so I thought that this issue could be a way to track them/discuss. 1 - Xen could have a ppc64 port (Raptor Computing Systems has offered free hardware to incentivize) 2 - Using the seL4 microkernel (https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/3894), which is already looking into supporting the Power Architecture 3 - Qubes' Hypervisor Abstraction Layer (HAL), which utlizes libvirt to support multiple hypervisors, yet currently only supports Xen, could be expanded to support KVM, to run on ppc64. ### **March 26, 2022: We are now all in agreement for Xen+Power (option 1).** Funds available as of May 7th, 2022: I (Robert Spigler) have 0.35 bitcoin & Blackbird Bundle @leo-lb has pledged 0.8 btc (need to confirm) Total 1.15 btc @madscientist159 Has offered to do the Xen port for 2 btc (just Xen port; no Qubes integration yet) Power Foundation has made a statement of support (https://twitter.com/OpenPOWERorg/status/1504112361975730186?s=20), but
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