Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any libre computers secure from/not affected by spectre and meltdown?

2018-01-21 Thread Mason Hock
> https://developer.arm.com/support/security-update It didn't list > A20 and said non listed cpus aren't affected. Most arm cpus are > affected. It seems I was wrong then. I'm glad to hear it, as a Libre Tea is likely to be my next computer.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any libre computers secure from/not affected by spectre and meltdown?

2018-01-21 Thread usename
I was just going off the arm affected cpu list. https://developer.arm.com/support/security-update It didn't list A20 and said non listed cpus aren't affected. Most arm cpus are affected.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any libre computers secure from/not affected by spectre and meltdown?

2018-01-21 Thread Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
ask on the rhombus-tech/arm-netbook mailing list, i suspect luke can give you some answers about which socs are safe.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any libre computers secure from/not affected by spectre and meltdown?

2018-01-21 Thread usename
Okay.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any libre computers secure from/not affected by spectre and meltdown?

2018-01-21 Thread jason
Avoid speculative execution. I believe MIPS doesn't do that. There are probably others - I have not looked. Why not make a list for us?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Are there any libre computers secure from/not affected by spectre and meltdown?

2018-01-21 Thread Mason Hock
Libre Tea uses an ARM processor, so like pretty much all modern CPUs it is presumably affected by Spectre. Meltdown has been patched in the linux kernell; just make sure that yours isn't too old to have received the patch.

[Trisquel-users] Are there any libre computers secure from/not affected by spectre and meltdown?

2018-01-21 Thread usename
Are there any libre computers secure from/not affected by spectre and meltdown? The only one I could think of is the libre tea card. I have a t400 and I know the thinkpads are all affected by spectre and meltdown.