For those that are interested, here's AMD's statement: http://www.amd.com/en/corporate/speculative-execution
On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 4:42 PM, Christian Ehrhardt < [email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
