I thought I saw a report earlier that AMD have given a public statement to the effect that their CPUs are NOT affected by this design flaw.
Willemina On January 4, 2018 2:50:08 PM GMT+00:00, Aria Bamdad <[email protected]> wrote: >>I am not any kind of Linux internals wizzard. But this exploit takes >>advantage of a _HARDWARD_ flaw in the Intel CPU. Linux on z does not >run on >>an _Intel_ chip. The story, that I've read at least, specifically >mentions >>that most AMD chips are not affected; nor are ARM chips. So why would >the >>z chip? Of course, management usually being composed of hardware >illiterate >>"liberal arts" majors, perhaps it would be a good idea for IBM to >>explicitly announce to the work that this flaw does not affect the >IBMZ >>machines. > > >You may be correct but the CERT advisory page lists the same chip >manufactures as 'affected': > >https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/584653 > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 >or visit >http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux on System z, visit >http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
