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From: Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] AMD microcode updates - where are they?!
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 21:16:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5D2A3C2A.2080205@youngman.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3234975.s2AmX6VSSp@localhost>

On 13/07/19 20:23, Mick wrote:
> Thanks Corbin, I wonder if despite articles about microcode patch releases to 
> deal with spectre and what not, there are just no patches made available for 
> my aging AMD CPUs.

Or Spectre and what not are Intel specific ...

I know a lot of the reports said many of the exploits don't work on AMD.
It's something to do with the way Intel has implemented speculative
execution, and AMD doesn't use that technique.

Cheers,
Wol


  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-13 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-12 12:18 [gentoo-user] AMD microcode updates - where are they?! Mick
2019-07-12 16:07 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2019-07-13  0:56   ` Adam Carter
2019-07-13  1:13     ` Adam Carter
2019-07-13 10:04       ` Mick
2019-07-13 10:01     ` Mick
2019-07-13 16:21 ` [gentoo-user] " Jack
2019-07-13 17:18   ` Mick
2019-07-13 17:23     ` Mick
2019-07-13 17:42     ` Jack
2019-07-13 18:06       ` Mick
2019-07-13 18:16         ` Corbin
2019-07-13 19:23           ` Mick
2019-07-13 20:16             ` Wols Lists [this message]
2019-07-13 21:01               ` Rich Freeman
2019-07-13 22:03                 ` Mick
2019-07-14 13:26                   ` Mick
2019-07-15  0:42                     ` Adam Carter
2019-07-17  3:21                     ` Corbin
2019-07-17 10:58                       ` Mick
2019-07-17 12:46                         ` Corbin
2019-07-17 20:51                           ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2019-07-18 12:33                             ` Corbin
2019-07-18 18:23                               ` Mick
2019-07-17 23:38                         ` [gentoo-user] " Adam Carter
2019-07-15  4:30         ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2019-07-15 21:18           ` Ian Zimmerman
2019-07-16  9:47             ` Mick
2019-07-15  5:15         ` [gentoo-user] " Adam Carter
2019-07-16  8:10     ` Neil Bothwick

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