> Xen project say meltdown vulnerability is only for Intel. That matches my understanding: only Intel optimizes that aggressively. (Apparently.)
Of course, there are also the various forms of spectre, exploiting much the same hardware bugs, just in different ways - ways _not_ involving the (apparently Intel-only) additional bug that allows meltdown. > I think, we should wait for a while to coming new microcode and > disclosure of specification update from intel. Why? Is there any reason to not deploy known effective countermeasures while waiting for a real fix? Indeed, do we have any reason to think a real fix will be forthcoming from Intel? In view of their attempts to downplay their bugs, I have negative confidence they will actually _fix_ them...if indeed they are fixable on current hardware. (It's not publicly known, as far as I know, to what extent the bugs are fixable in microcode; in some respects they may be baked into the silicon.) > people is too silent, is this means presense of NDA? In a few cases, probably. More likely, it seems to me - this is certainly my own case - I've already said everything I've thought of that seemed useful (and even vaguely appropriate to this list). /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
