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charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2026-09-09 at 19:07 +0300, igor.stoppa@gmail.com wrote: > On Wed, 9 Sept 2026 at 18:22, Gabriele Monaco wrote: >=20 > > In general I feel anything that tries to validate the kernel from the k= ernel > > itself will have this kind of problems. It cannot really be isolated fr= om > > what it tries to verify. >=20 > Well, that is where I beg to differ. We have implemented such a mechanism= . > But I've been repeatedly told that I should provide first the code, > which right now woulnd't really help much, because it is far from being i= n a > reviewable shape. > So I won't get back there. >=20 > You can look at the references from the root mail in this thread, > or we can move the conversation to a different place, if you want to > discuss more about it. Right, I didn't think I had access to the entire conversation but it's all = on lore. Now I remember, you discussed this at last year's LPC. RV is indeed not quite a fit for this. I'll be trying to follow your presentation this year. Also a BoF on this so= unds interesting to get the ball rolling. Thanks, Gabriele