<freebirds <at> fastmail.fm> writes:
Congratulations! Thanks Luke for supporting MIPS. I have been waiting for a MIPS CPU card. I can donate. Please private message me.
"Unfortunately, MIPS Release 5 has the VZ module to support hardware assisted virtualization." https://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/KVM Though there is little information on the internet on the VZ module, most likely it would be less of a surveillance threat than TrustZone and Mobicore.
Luke, I too would be interested in getting an FSF-endorseable card, so will be following your progress on this card.
Freebirds, you don't know the technologies you're talking about. From the linux-mips article about VZ: "The root is in full control of what the guest is permitted to do, which allows a guest operating system to run unmodified and unaware that it is being virtualised." If you are worried about TrustZone, then you should be equally worried about VZ.
Me, on the other hand, I would like to have hardware support of virtualization. I'm excited for this technology.