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From: "Kristof Provost" <kristof@sigsegv.be>
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Subject: Re: Meltdown =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=93?= Spectre
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On 8 Jan 2018, at 3:18, Baho Utot wrote:
> On 1/7/2018 9:11 PM, Efrain Dector wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> Read about it here: 
>> https://www.freebsd.org/news/newsflash.html#event20180104:01
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> El 7 ene. 2018 8:06 p. m., "Baho Utot" <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com 
>> <mailto:baho-utot@columbus.rr.com>> escribió:
>>
>>     What is freeBSD doing for these attacks?
>>     _______________________________________________
>
> Ok thanks,  It looks like the linux folks is more on top of this as 
> they already have code released for the 4.4 4.9 with the 4.15 kernels 
> being at release candidate.
>
They have been aware of the problem for 6+ months. FreeBSD was notified 
in late December. It’s being worked on, but these are non-trivial 
changes, so it’ll take some time.

Regards,
Kristof