Re: [gentoo-user] List of Intel CPUs that wont get Meltdown/Spectre fixes

2018-04-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 3:36 PM, Wols Lists wrote: > On 05/04/18 17:54, Rich Freeman wrote: >> I >> haven't checked recently but the last time I looked at it even my >> current Ryzen CPU doesn't have a microcode fix out yet for lfence. > > Is lfence a meltdown problem?

Re: [gentoo-user] List of Intel CPUs that wont get Meltdown/Spectre fixes

2018-04-05 Thread Wols Lists
On 05/04/18 17:54, Rich Freeman wrote: > I > haven't checked recently but the last time I looked at it even my > current Ryzen CPU doesn't have a microcode fix out yet for lfence. Is lfence a meltdown problem? Because afaik Ryzen doesn't need a fix for meltdown, it's not vulnerable. As for

Re: [gentoo-user] List of Intel CPUs that wont get Meltdown/Spectre fixes

2018-04-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 12:34 PM, Mick wrote: > > Does the lack of a microcode patch mean the in-kernel and other software fixes > won't be sufficient to protect PCs running these old CPUs? I'm interested if somebody has a more informed answer, but my guess is that it

Re: [gentoo-user] List of Intel CPUs that wont get Meltdown/Spectre fixes

2018-04-05 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 5 April 2018 10:20:59 BST Adam Carter wrote: > https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/04/microcode-upd > ate-guidance.pdf > > From > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/04/intel_spectre_microcode_updates/ > > "The new guidance >

[gentoo-user] List of Intel CPUs that wont get Meltdown/Spectre fixes

2018-04-05 Thread Adam Carter
https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/04/microcode-update-guidance.pdf From https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/04/intel_spectre_microcode_updates/ "The new guidance , issued