On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 03:27:16PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 07:27:24AM +0100, marc wrote: > > Spectre has no patch in the conventional sense. But there > > are two types of things one can do: > > > > * Move to a processor which doesn't speculate :) with so many > > side effects. Processors found on the raspberry PI, for example, > > are ok to use. > > I was planning on a new laptop so I could use a reasonablly current API. > But with the execute-ahead fiasco, I am reluctant to put serious money > down on a vulnerable processor. So I'm getting a raspberry pi instead > and connecting it to my TV. Not really a laptop, no.
Grab a Pinebook. It's slow, but still faster than Raspberry Pi, and has two GB ram rather than one. For $89, you don't care that it's only a stop-gap before you can get a better one once such CPUs become available. Also, its manufacture quality is pretty nice compared to other cheap laptops I've seen. > And I'm replacing my file server with one based on a MIPS processor. GnuBee? Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ Imagine there are bandits in your house, your kid is bleeding out, ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ the house is on fire, and seven big-ass trumpets are playing in the ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ sky. Your cat demands food. The priority should be obvious... _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
