Clarifying the Spectre mitigations...

[Gerald Henriksen]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 13:53:57 +0800, you wrote:

>"As pointed out elsewhere,  this involves 20+ years of processors."
>
>Seeking clarification - I understood, from all of the reports, from
>multiple sources, that I have seen, that it applies to "all processors
>manufactured in the last ten years".

The following quote:

"At the time of writing, Google believes that "every Intel processor
which implements out-of-order execution is potentially affected, which
is effectively every processor since 1995 (except Intel Itanium and
Intel Atom before 2013)" is affected by Meltdown."

which is from:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-almost-all-cpus-since-1995-vulnerable-to-meltdown-and-spectre-flaws/