On 3/23/2018 2:00 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote:
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 09:24:24PM +1000, [email protected] wrote:
The original CPU design was purchased from the US, but a variety of chip
makers have been improving on the design in a variety of ways, so it is not
US cloned, but is US descended - rather distantly descended by now.
according to the interwebz, your system is ARM based and in addition ARM
is vulnerable to spectre. how many vulnerabilities like spectre affect
the "US design"?
The Orange Pi Cpu does not do speculative execution, therefore is not
vulnerable to spectre.