On Thursday, March 07, 2024 12:36 CET, Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:

> > > > How do I get a BTI enabled machine?
> > 
> > Apparently most Intel Gen11+ CPUs have IBT.  For arm64 you need an
> > Apple M2.
> 
> Look for "Control-Flow Enforcement Technology" in the Intel cpu details
> page on ark.intel.com. Yes it needs to be gen11 or newer.
> 
> AMD does not have it yet.
> 
> Cheapest way is probably the N100-based mini PCs (not speed demons but
> fairly acceptable and they're really cheap).
> 
> For laptops, Thinkpad T14 are fairly common amongst developers.
> (T14 g2 has gen11 CPUs, all cores the same - T14 g3 has gen12, mix
> of performance + efficiency cores).
> 

I don't own such modern hardware ;)
But such N100 based mini PC looks like a viable option to add to my stack.

Sebastian