Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 10:24:10 -0800 From: "Chris H" <bsd-lists@BSDforge.com> To: "Eric McCorkle" <eric@metricspace.net> Cc: "=?UTF-8?B?RnJlZWJzZCBTZWN1cml0eSIgPGZyZWVic2Qtc2VjdXJpdHlAZnJlZWJzZC5vcmc+LCAiRnJlZUJTRCBIYWNrZXJzIiA8ZnJlZWJzZC1oYWNrZXJzQGZyZWVic2Qub3JnPiwgIiBmcmVlYnNkLWFyY2hAZnJlZWJzZC5vcmc+IiA8ZnJlZWJzZC1hcmNoQGZyZWVic2Qub3JnPiwgIkMgQmVyZ3N0csO2bSIgPGNiZXJnc3Ryb21AcGF0aHNjYWxlLmNvbT4=?= Subject: Re: Intel hardware bug Message-ID: <edca72233df2ccceab15e3e64b5a2b7c@udns.ultimatedns.net> In-Reply-To: <755a65eb-b02e-05c5-e1a2-701cfd8bc837@metricspace.net>
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On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 10:35:13 -0500 "Eric McCorkle" <eric@metricspace=2Enet> sa= id > On 01/05/2018 09:55, C Bergstr=C3=B6m wrote: >=20 > > Don't bet on it=2E=C2=A0 There's reports of AMD vulnerabilities, also= for ARM=2E > > I doubt any major architecture is going to make it out unscathed=2E= =C2=A0 (But > > if one does, my money's on Power) > >=20 > >=20 > > Nope, the only arch that I'm aware of that gets past this is SPARC(hah!= ) > > due to the seperate userland and kernel memory virtualization=2E >=20 > Alas, poor Sparc=2E I knew them, Horatio=2E=2E=2E Ahh, good ol' SPARC! >=20 > It looks like Red Hat is indeed reporting Power9 to be vulnerable: >=20 > https://access=2Eredhat=2Ecom/security/vulnerabilities/speculativeexecution >=20 > Unfortunate=2E I hope they get fixed silicon out in time for the Talos II > workstation=2E What *I* want to know; is whether they're going to drastically reduce the price on all the affected processors? As it stands, they should be practically giving them away=2E How is it that the burden lies on the OS vendors, and not the manufacturers?! --Chris
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