Intel hardware bug

[Eric McCorkle]

On 01/05/2018 09:55, C Bergström wrote:

>     Don't bet on it.  There's reports of AMD vulnerabilities, also for ARM.
>     I doubt any major architecture is going to make it out unscathed.  (But
>     if one does, my money's on Power)
> 
> 
> Nope, the only arch that I'm aware of that gets past this is SPARC(hah!)
> due to the seperate userland and kernel memory virtualization.

Alas, poor Sparc.  I knew them, Horatio...

It looks like Red Hat is indeed reporting Power9 to be vulnerable:

https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/speculativeexecution

Unfortunate.  I hope they get fixed silicon out in time for the Talos II
workstation.