Clarifying the Spectre mitigations...

[Bret Busby]

On 10/01/2018, Gerald Henriksen <ghenriks at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/
>
>

Now that you have cited it, that is the only formal reference of which
I am aware, that indicates that processors older than ten years, are
susceptible.


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Bret Busby
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