Ryzen issues on FreeBSD ?

[Mike Tancsa]

On 1/19/2018 4:14 PM, Pete French wrote:
> To be honest this thread has put me off building my machine, the pile of
> boxes with motherboard, case, cpu and ram is still sitting next to me
> desk at work!

It is quite discouraging, isnt it :(  From my POV however, I really want
a "plan b" to Spectre / Meltdown that at least slows down attackers.  On
a few servers, I do have ways to detect after that fact intrusions
(tripwire etc), but I want to mitigate this attack from happening in the
first place as much as possible.  Supposedly Spectre exploits on AMD are
MUCH harder (or so says AMD at least) so I am hoping I can at least have
this as an option.  We even ordered a Tyan Epyc based board to see what
its like too.

	---Mike



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