On Thu, 2018-01-04 at 10:21 -0500, Allan Streib wrote: > "Alceu R. de Freitas Jr." <glasswal...@yahoo.com.br> writes: > > > I guess Intel does not give a shit about non-profit groups. Linux > > got > > this attention because there are a lot of players making money from > > it, players that surely have some sort of partnership with Intel. > > From what I have read in the past 24 hours, the spectre attacks are > not > limited to Intel CPUs, but in theory could affect any that use > speculative execution (including, at least, modern ARM designs and > AMD > processors). > > My uninformed take on this is that when you allow anyone in the world > to > run programs on your systems (i.e. JavaScript in browsers, "cloud" > hosted virtual machines running on shared hardware, etc.) these sorts > of > things occasionally happen. No CPUs or software are perfectly secure. > > Allan > >
AMD has said that it doesn't affect their processors. Whether or not that's true, I'm not sure. One curiosity I had was whether the KARL mitigation in 6.2 would help with this. I suppose it depends on the nature of the flaw (which is still embargoed I assume).
