On Monday, 8 January 2018 10:10:17 GMT qubestheb...@tutanota.com wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-PSP-Disable-Option
> It's still yet not known whether this disabling is effective and whether
> it disables the PSP in its entirety.
> 
> But if it does, then that would make the most recent AMD processors one of
> the best choices for Qubes 4.x usage.

In context;

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-PSP-2018-Vulnerability

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Tip-Git-Disable-x86-PTI

So its an  up / down :)
* AMD is faster (no PTI)
* AMD has a remote code execution issue, at least until you can turn off PSA 
using a bios update.
* Bios updates are not much seen in the wild.

Time will tell.
-- 
Tom Zander
Blog: https://zander.github.io
Vlog: https://vimeo.com/channels/tomscryptochannel


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