From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: Meltdown / Spectre Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 09:20:04 -0800 Message-ID: <20180110172004.GA27558@jasmine.lan> References: <874lnzcedp.fsf@gmail.com> <20180106174358.GA28436@jasmine.lan> <87lghapeu5.fsf@gmail.com> <87incc6z9o.fsf@gmail.com> <87fu7g436e.fsf@fastmail.com> <807794bd-5262-8b36-1f9f-dd3a316928ff@tobias.gr> <87d12i7pud.fsf@gmail.com> <315934ac-8ea6-5728-87a3-26cc59033220@tobias.gr> <54a2c765-e064-15ab-345c-da8b0f755ab4@platen-software.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44362) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZK2u-0002VY-1X for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2018 12:20:12 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZK2q-0001M4-RL for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2018 12:20:12 -0500 Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:35629) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZK2q-0001LI-L9 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2018 12:20:08 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54a2c765-e064-15ab-345c-da8b0f755ab4@platen-software.de> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Tobias Platen Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 11:46:46AM +0100, Tobias Platen wrote: > The Talos II is a free-er system. And its processor (the POWER9) does not > seem to be affected by Meltdown/Sprectre [1]. >=20 > [1] https://mobile.twitter.com/RaptorCompSys?p=3Ds The Talos teams says that their POWER8 and POWER9 systems are vulnerable to Meltdown and Spectre, but that the CPUs will be patched somehow: https://twitter.com/RaptorCompSys/status/949368929507520517 I expect any CPU that does speculative execution / executes out-of-order will be found to be vulnerable. --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEEsFFZSPHn08G5gDigJkb6MLrKfwgFAlpWSz8ACgkQJkb6MLrK fwg/og//QcYXrnCgmDnA4nFoFhSvDahWZGjmknDJZD6ukkzh4EfWDmdHjLhye9sQ YZ6s6RqVDyd1B17BH7wzBTuCuEq56B9UbsFiG/lATe9ZrTNHcXYE9kVmzfIcxVk/ qmE7Hfu6LJAQodsG29ceFNo9vu5kY6j+xhALclrFlglNKxua4UtymVp9Yz91JwnF EJmcJvH7vCsQ/NzAKjG+ZuQY9m+OOjtkzkrU3nqgv3n9fvF7WNK3rYBt8B1/7H2I YPRtwGY2BV2fOtiRXmAU/ILD2DR/XG8MmeU4DiMPCK9NbOrehEaSdqFTJesej1zU UXgC+gkYSYVVlaRqIcttbKrEZAemD5S8u21EpW3W2TGH9Ft3JHgeGq3Hi/iHoeew rgOFPLbRA1BQjS468HvSdj3WLcKtte5sqN9C9VBxw82AAXCVp3uA0aEuPcGm8Cyf n6ftoa0a7sK9pUoBaBLhFGzrLaHf1OrLJK4kNgH9SBOeIrAbcEMOYqd7kHrvUwtG 5xfT1LYQCnmsQbkAxNHGB0YGkLMhySUe3SEgTjXQLZLn+AkcwJ/cAgEIQkGjZlLV GSKtExudPAN8verK4uFlpM7PAZejooatAx9sUTH90O4j1/rl6JU+IhtMrz2+V5SL idtMovWyIe/u3mO0aPC7x2WmxptfpYP08t/yYZGjydeofigSjBk= =yYs/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MGYHOYXEY6WxJCY8--