On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 5:33 PM, WF Konynenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
That IMHO is a consequence of merging two issues (which each can manifest in various ways) into one big buzz about it. > 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/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
