Re: Meltdown, aka "Dear Intel, you suck"

> From: Philip Guenther > Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 20:52:20 -0800 > > Unless something unexpected happens, we'll be applying the workaround to > amd64 first and then working out what to do for i386 and arm* (if still > though to be necessary for arm) after that. FWIW, Meltdown

Re: Meltdown, aka "Dear Intel, you suck"

> We have received *no* non-public information. I've seen posts elsewhere by > other *BSD people implying that they receive little or no prior warning, so > I have no reason to believe this was specific to OpenBSD and/or our > philosophy. Personally, I do find itamusing? that public

Meltdown, aka "Dear Intel, you suck"

So, yes, we the OpenBSD developers are not totally asleep and a handful of us are working out how to deal with Intel's fuck-up aka the Meltdown attack. While we have the advantage of less complexity in this area (e.g., no 32bit-on-64bit compat), there's still a pile of details to work through