Fair enough, any idea if this could effect MIPS {32 64}? That's my next
most commonly deployed arch. I do assume that there will likely be some
issues on other arches, but from what I see, folks are still doing
pensive beard stroking trying to determine if AMD chips are susceptible.
SPARC is tight like a tiger as Goldmember would say, and I would be
wholeheartedly shocked to find it was vulnerable to the same degree as x86.
On 01/06/18 10:27, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 10:22:25AM -0800, Jordan Geoghegan wrote:
All my web-facing servers are running SPARC and/or for a couple smaller
projects, PowerPC. People thought I was a loon when I vehemently insisted on
SPARC over the years, and called me crazy when I hosted my personal web
projects on PowerPC. x86 is a disease.
A little bit extra in electricity costs, and a whole lot extra when it comes
to peace of mind - niche architectures ftw!
Sparc64 and powerpc also have speculative execution, branch
prediction and extensive caches. It is much wiser to assume they are
also affected by (similar) bugs/explots or whatever you call it.
That said, they are indeed nicer than the Intel stuff that can hardly
be called an architecture.
-Otto
