-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On Wed, 2018-01-03 at 19:45 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2018-01-03 17:48, Linda Walsh wrote:
* For good measure, similar software protections will be included on 64-bit ARM kernels as well; While AMD chips aren't affected by this bug, it's hard to see an update physically-splitting (instead of just virtually-splitting) all kernel & user code, only being applied against Intel and ARM (i.e. AMD chip-based systems may likely be affected by the slowdown due to the fix being applied across 64-bit kernels.
AMD has asked the measure not be applied to their processors.
- From AMD's perspective, it would definitely be exasperating to have your hardware penalized when you didn't screw stuff up... Surely there's got to be some way to selectively enable the "protections" based off of CPU model, like there is with other features? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCgAdFiEE7GM/Dul8WSWn72odQ1nEo4DFCIUFAlpNL4MACgkQQ1nEo4DF CIULPgf/Z6rFzxojdZpTwElm3hYtPfCfVblSqgfdfUqqbdmqqYH2mYP3YJow4Mwe xRZlVyAWfnJUfqdpsbVlDGD1xDtcEHz+pd71gk2KkPZZxoTvPDrL4Zj4XaYAbMJl AcJTGlpD95foM8IOVtSOXp7+jO97OkW/PLmFwAfdIJJSVJWvfBRnaR6Dn4FvtufA 7omT0yOBT03cKa/wiP9tyyNmk+hgZB0b0zzsEX3FM6VrIAMQ7utrCLR5VCX9kGQb +ud2l7os58MUQV2H7ENGpL6POkBkdVaSeYB6aURR3kkfo7ZBB7cG1ODFaDSCjWAR IYYoqmQxqRgpeXfpl42bBTR+JrBKxA== =bVwN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----