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Steve's blog
Personal blog · blog.einval.comsystemshardwaresecurity
Steve's blog is a personal blog at blog.einval.com about systems, hardware and security. Since 2015, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Debian and firmware”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on rebuilding software on arm64 and kernel handling of unaligned memory access. One comment cites a post for a claim about SIGBUS on arm64; the other discusses USB controller firmware.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Debian and firmware2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-19
- Secure Boot and Microsoft CA Rollover – a heads-up for distributions2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-22
What Hacker News says?
https://blog.einval.com/2019/01/07#rebuilding_on_arm64 says the Linux kernel sends SIGBUS on unaligned accesses on arm64.
Comment linking /2019/01/07
on “Data alignment: Straighten up and fly right (2005)”Submitted Debian and firmware as a story · 257 points
HN discussionAnd you probably still have firmware on the main machine. Just about every modern usb controller offloads the USB packet arbitration/sequencing behind a microcontroller and a pile of fw. Ex XHCI is usually a 8051 and some firmware sitting on the other side of the XHCI register description. Its probably the same on the actual USB->ethernet device, where there is conceptually something like the cypress FX3 integrated…
Comment linking /2022/04/19
on “Upstream Linux support available for Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Mobile Platform”Submitted It's dead, Jim – the old Microsoft UEFI CA from 2011 expired yesterday as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Secure Boot and Microsoft CA Rollover – a heads-up for distributions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debian: Firmware – what are we going to do about it? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What can you preseed when installing Debian? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ready for Jessie (aka bits from the debian-cd team) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bootstrapping the 64-bit ARM port for Debian as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Secure Boot and Microsoft CA Rollover – a heads-up for distributions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Firmware vote result – the people have spoken as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twenty years a Debian developer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Supporting the Software Freedom Conservancy Too as a story · 1 points
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