I have been searching and reading intently for the past day also. I am disappointed by the rush to republish and dearth of solid data beyond the Proof of Concept.
Apparently in theory Spectre haunts all processors back to the Pentium Pro. There is very little solid evidence of what steppings of what processors are vulnerable. Intel changes masks often enough that it's NOT clear that every processors will have similar exposure, e.g. the infamous ancient FDIV bug only affected certain steppings of one of the P54 CPUs. I'm not betting anybody will critically evaluate the older CPUs still in service, e.g. my two Core2 Duos and one Core2 Quad Extreme, i7/940 & 870, even a few Pentium 3's, Coppermine, Tualatin and even Esther. Likewise, I'm not betting kernel patches will get pushed down to the kernels that support those old systems. ext3 is not supported in the latest kernels, so instructions to install the latest kernels will leave many systems non-functional. I think patches need to be pushed back to 3.19 kernels. I'm making plans for patching kernels, and identifying systems that CAN be. But I'll wait a few days for patches to solidify. There are significant infrastructure issues all around. Not to mention (Windows & Linux) "kernel" support for all the systems in commercial service in hospitals, grocery stores, and offices that will never be updated. -- Paul Rogers [email protected] Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
