Operating Systems and Modern Heterogeneous Hardware

USENIX · Talk · 1 h 6 min · 2021 · YouTube title: USENIX ATC '21/OSDI '21 Joint Keynote Address-It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware

Why it's here

Repeatedly recommended as a revelatory talk on how little control the main OS has over modern SoCs and PCs.

What it covers

Timothy Roscoe of ETH Zurich delivers the joint USENIX ATC/OSDI 2021 keynote arguing that operating systems must reckon with modern hardware, which is a heterogeneous collection of processors, firmware and coprocessors rather than a simple machine. It shows how much runs below and beside Linux.