GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all
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GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all
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Re: GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all
#2To clarify, regarding the confusion: it was disabled, leading them to think it didn't outright exist.
Why disabled? Well, its performance is apparently quite poor. But why?
...Apparently to save money.
Re: GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all
#3For anyone else not knowing what MTE stands for:
> Memory safety bugs, which are errors in handling memory in native programming languages, are common code issues. They lead to security vulnerabilities as well as stability problems.
>Armv9 introduced the Arm Memory Tagging Extension (MTE), a hardware extension that allows you to catch use-after-free and buffer-overflow bugs in your native code.
Re: GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all
#4For those don't know you will either code in Rust or make sure MTE enabled.
Re: GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all
#5To clarify, regarding the confusion: it was disabled , leading them to think it didn't outright exist. Why disabled? Well, its performance is apparently quite poor. But why? ...Apparently to save money.
The thread made it sound like it was more- that the actual release of pixel 11 did not have the firmware to support MTE, not that it was just disabled.
Is the thread wrong or did I misread it?
Re: GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all
#6Boo. I was delighted by its introduction in pixel 8. I thought this was a resurgence of the old Google, actually giving a f about software, security and the end user.
iPhone 17 has it now. maybe Google's work here is done
https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1ndcrug/iphone_17_in...
Re: GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all
#7A company making multi billions of dollars in profit still looking to save money selling their flagship phone?
Re: GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all
#8A company making multi billions of dollars in profit still looking to save money selling their flagship phone?
Google makes money, I'm not sure Pixel does.
Re: GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all
#9So, where does the restriction for side loading apps live, on the device or the OS? Curious about getting the Pixel 11 Pro if/when I can install GrapheneOS.